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Re: Quickdraw with Google AI

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I assume this is picking from a predefined set of things? As in not all nouns, but a smaller list of possibilities. Otherwise it is pretty impressive that it went 6 for 6 with my terrible drawing abilities.

It'd be cool if the learning set was built on humans coming up with challenges and then strangers drawing them, and then them being guess by a third person, and then validated by the challenger as true/false.

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Many people here have pointed out that the data is available -- https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset I toyed with it some time ago and was impressed to see that -- in the raw data set -- each drawing is a time-series of strokes i.e. you get a person's drawing (of a penguin, the Mona Lisa, etc.) after 0.1 second of drawing, after 0.2 seconds, etc. I made and (shameless plug!) sell giant algorithmical…

Love that!

I too was inspired to use this dataset in some way, and made this toy program where you point your camera at your face, and it renders your eyes and nose as doodles (and barfs out more if you open your mouth): https://github.com/goberoi/sketch_face

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I assume this is picking from a predefined set of things? As in not all nouns, but a smaller list of possibilities. Otherwise it is pretty impressive that it went 6 for 6 with my terrible drawing abilities.

It has to be. I was prompted to draw "police car", and started about drawing a regular car with a siren on top. It guessed police car before I was even done drawing a generic car body - so I assume it wasn't trained on just a regular "car". Edit: I was half wrong. It is selecting from a limited list, but both police car _and_ a regular car are actually in that list. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data

I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%.

It would be better if it just said “draw something.”

Re: Quickdraw with Google AI

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post #22

Many people here have pointed out that the data is available -- https://github.com/googlecreativelab/quickdraw-dataset I toyed with it some time ago and was impressed to see that -- in the raw data set -- each drawing is a time-series of strokes i.e. you get a person's drawing (of a penguin, the Mona Lisa, etc.) after 0.1 second of drawing, after 0.2 seconds, etc. I made and (shameless plug!) sell giant algorithmical…

Love that! I too was inspired to use this dataset in some way, and made this toy program where you point your camera at your face, and it renders your eyes and nose as doodles (and barfs out more if you open your mouth): https://github.com/goberoi/sketch_face

That's really great, congrats! I'm sure that a web/javascript version of that would be popular.

Let me know if you'd like to do a quick collaboration!

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has to be. I was prompted to draw "police car", and started about drawing a regular car with a siren on top. It guessed police car before I was even done drawing a generic car body - so I assume it wasn't trained on just a regular "car". Edit: I was half wrong. It is selecting from a limited list, but both police car _and_ a regular car are actually in that list. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data

I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%. It would be better if it just said “draw something.”

> of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw

It's a computer. It doesn't know that unless it's explicitly told to remember it.

You can very easily test this by just drawing whatever you want as if it did say "draw something". It's very accurate at guessing any of the objects in the dataset, even if it's not the one you're meant to be drawing.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It has to be. I was prompted to draw "police car", and started about drawing a regular car with a siren on top. It guessed police car before I was even done drawing a generic car body - so I assume it wasn't trained on just a regular "car". Edit: I was half wrong. It is selecting from a limited list, but both police car _and_ a regular car are actually in that list. https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/data

I’m not sure I understand it. It prompts you to draw a certain thing, then it “guesses” what you drew, but of course it already knows because it just told you exactly what to draw. Maybe I’m missing something but the game makes no sense. If I told you what to draw then tried to tell you what you were drawing I’d get 100%. It would be better if it just said “draw something.”

By telling you what to draw, Googles gets a training set of drawings and their (sanitized) descriptions.

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love that! I too was inspired to use this dataset in some way, and made this toy program where you point your camera at your face, and it renders your eyes and nose as doodles (and barfs out more if you open your mouth): https://github.com/goberoi/sketch_face

That's really great, congrats! I'm sure that a web/javascript version of that would be popular. Let me know if you'd like to do a quick collaboration!

Thanks. Alas I don’t have bandwidth to take it on, but encourage you to do so wholeheartedly. Bonne chance!

Re: Quickdraw with Google AI

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I love using this as an English Foreign Language teacher. I just wish I could choose a subset of the vocab because some of the words are a bit obscure like "megaphone"
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