How do humans sketch objects?
Technische Universität Berlin · John Brown University
Abstract
Humans have used sketching to depict our visual world since prehistoric times. Even today, sketching is possibly the only rendering technique readily available to all humans. This paper is the first large scale exploration of human sketches. We analyze the distribution of non-expert sketches of everyday objects such as 'teapot' or 'car'. We ask humans to sketch objects of a given category and gather 20,000 unique sketches evenly distributed over 250 object categories. With this dataset we perform a perceptual study and find that humans can correctly identify the object category of a sketch 73% of the time. We compare human performance against computational recognition methods. We develop a bag-of-features…
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3Topics & keywords
- Sketch
- Computer science
- Sketch recognition
- Rendering (computer graphics)
- Artificial intelligence
- Representation (politics)
- Object (grammar)
- Perception