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Creative Sketch Generation

arXiv 2011.10039 ↗First posted 19 Nov 2020cs.CV cs.AIcited by 44

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Abstract (arXiv)

Sketching or doodling is a popular creative activity that people engage in. However, most existing work in automatic sketch understanding or generation has focused on sketches that are quite mundane. In this work, we introduce two datasets of creative sketches -- Creative Birds and Creative Creatures -- containing 10k sketches each along with part annotations. We propose DoodlerGAN -- a part-based Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) -- to generate unseen compositions of novel part appearances. Quantitative evaluations as well as human studies demonstrate that sketches generated by our approach are more creative and of higher quality than existing approaches. In fact, in Creative Birds, subjects prefer sketches generated by DoodlerGAN over those drawn by humans! Our code can be found at https://github.com/facebookresearch/DoodlerGAN and a demo can be found at http://doodlergan.cloudcv.org.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 5; 2022: 7; 2023: 10; 2024: 8; 2025: 9; 2026: 5.

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  1. 2024Building Machines that Learn and Think with Peoplecited by 73
  2. 2022CLIPascene: Scene Sketching with Different Types and Levels of Abstractioncited by 63
  3. 2023DiffSketcher: Text Guided Vector Sketch Synthesis through Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 54
  4. 2022FS-COCO: Towards Understanding of Freehand Sketches of Common Objects in Contextcited by 47
  5. 2024SketchAgent: Language-Driven Sequential Sketch Generationcited by 30
  6. 2024CodeS: Natural Language to Code Repository via Multi-Layer Sketchcited by 28
  7. 2023ConceptLab: Creative Concept Generation using VLM-Guided Diffusion Prior Constraintscited by 25
  8. 2022Doodle It Yourself: Class Incremental Learning by Drawing a Few Sketchescited by 23
  9. 2021The Animation Transformer: Visual Correspondence via Segment Matchingcited by 20
  10. 2022Partially Does It: Towards Scene-Level FG-SBIR with Partial Inputcited by 20
  11. 2021DoodleFormer: Creative Sketch Drawing with Transformerscited by 17
  12. 2022AutoLink: Self-supervised Learning of Human Skeletons and Object Outlines by Linking Keypointscited by 17
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  1. 2023Sketch2Saliency: Learning to Detect Salient Objects from Human Drawingscited by 17
  2. 2024Can AI Be as Creative as Humans?cited by 17
  3. 2023TP2O: Creative Text Pair-to-Object Generation using Balance Swap-Samplingcited by 16
  4. 2023ChiroDiff: Modelling chirographic data with Diffusion Modelscited by 14
  5. 2024SketchINR: A First Look into Sketches as Implicit Neural Representationscited by 13
  6. 2024PartCraft: Crafting Creative Objects by Partscited by 13
  7. 2022Improving Fairness in Image Classification via Sketchingcited by 11
  8. 2023SketchXAI: A First Look at Explainability for Human Sketchescited by 10
  9. 2023SketchDreamer: Interactive Text-Augmented Creative Sketch Ideationcited by 10
  10. 2021One Sketch for All: One-Shot Personalized Sketch Segmentationcited by 9
  11. 2023ContextSeg: Sketch Semantic Segmentation by Querying the Context with Attentioncited by 9
  12. 2024Freehand Sketch Generation from Mechanical Componentscited by 8
  13. 2023DreamCreature: Crafting Photorealistic Virtual Creatures from Imaginationcited by 5
  14. 2025Instance Segmentation of Scene Sketches Using Natural Image Priorscited by 4
  15. 2023ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schr"odinger Bridgecited by 3
  16. 2021Calliar: An Online Handwritten Dataset for Arabic Calligraphycited by 2
  17. 2024Do Generalised Classifiers really work on Human Drawn Sketches?cited by 2
  18. 2025StrokeFusion: Vector Sketch Generation via Joint Stroke-UDF Encoding and Latent Sequence Diffusioncited by 2
  19. 2026VideoSketcher: Sequential Sketch Generation Using Video Model Priorscited by 2
  20. 2021XCI-Sketch: Extraction of Color Information from Images for Generation of Colored Outlines and Sketchescited by 1
  21. 2025Chirpy3D: Part-Aware Multi-View Diffusion for Creative Fine-Grained Object Generationcited by 1
  22. 2025Sketch & Paint: Stroke-by-Stroke Evolution of Visual Artworkscited by 1
  23. 2025Sparse-to-Sparse Training of Diffusion Modelscited by 1
  24. 2026Stroke of Surprise: Progressive Semantic Illusions in Vector Sketchingcited by 1
  25. 2022Multimodal Query-guided Object Localizationcited by 0
  26. 2025FedGAI: Federated Style Learning with Cloud-Edge Collaboration for Generative AI in Fashion Designcited by 0
  27. 2025ViSketch-GPT: Collaborative Multi-Scale Feature Extraction for Sketch Recognition and Generationcited by 0
  28. 2025Doodle Your Keypoints: Sketch-Based Few-Shot Keypoint Detectioncited by 0
  29. 2025Annotation-Free Human Sketch Quality Assessmentcited by 0
  30. 2026SketchMamba: A Lightweight State-Space Model for Joint Progressive Sketch Classification and Stroke Auto-Completioncited by 0
  31. 2026Draw This Firstcited by 0
  32. 2026SketchFlow: Zero-Shot Vector Sketch Generation via GMM Prior Flow in CLIP Latent Spacecited by 0