Analyzing Sketches Around the World with sketch-rnn

Abstract

Quick, draw a sandwich! What does it look like? If you were from South Korea, you may have added pickled cucumber, or if you were from Sweden you might have drawn a smörgås i.e. open-faced sandwich. The way we draw reflects our environment and culture. We explored using a neural representation to analyze thousands of sketches from across the world, and found it revealed fascinating differences across countries. We further investigated predicting the country from the drawing, finding which countries have the most distinctive drawings and which drawing categories show the most geographical variations.

Type
Publication
Analytics Vidhya, results selected for display at the AI Art Gallery at NeurIPS 2020

Encoder Decoder Flow
Country Average Sketches
Special thanks to the IBM Visual AI lab for mentorship during this project.

Aly Lidayan
Aly Lidayan
Artificial Intelligence PhD Student