Tracing Versus Freehand for Evaluating Computer-Generated Drawings (SIGGRAPH 2021)

Zeyu Wang, Sherry Qiu, Nicole Feng, Holly Rushmeier, Leonard McMillan, Julie Dorsey

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Drawing Dataset

The dataset consists of 1,498 tracings and freehand drawings by 110 participants for 100 image prompts. Our drawings are registered to the prompts and include vector-based timestamped strokes collected via stylus input.

You can download the dataset here and place them in the data folder (about 600MB after unzipping). All code in this repository takes input from the data folder.

data/tracings.json, data/drawings.json, and data/drawings_registered.json use the following format.

{
  // each prompt
  "IMAGE_FILENAME.png": {
    // each drawing
    "PARTICIPANT_ID": [
      // each stroke
      {
        "path": string (Unix timestamp, x, y coordinates at each vertex separated by comma)
        "pressure": string (pressure value at each vertex separated by comma)
        "color": string (hex code, e.g., "#000000")
        "width": integer (stroke width on an 800x800 canvas)
        "opacity": float (alpha value from 0 to 1)
      }
      ...
    ]
    ...
  }
  ...
}

Code

Before running any code, please run conda env create -f environment.yml, conda activate tracer, and sudo apt install librsvg2-bin. All code has been tested on Ubuntu 20.04.

• utils/ contains the code for rendering drawings and their subsets and composites from the raw JSON data.
• registration/ contains the code for registering freehand drawings to tracing density.
• figs/ contains the code for combining intermediate visual results to make the teaser in our paper.

I will update this repo from time to time. If you need anything in particular, please feel free to reach out to me directly.

Citation

The dataset and code are released for academic research use only under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

If you use the dataset or code for your research, please cite this paper:

@article{Wang:2021:Tracing,
  author = {Wang, Zeyu and Qiu, Sherry and Feng, Nicole and Rushmeier,  Holly and McMillan, Leonard and Dorsey, Julie},
  title = {Tracing Versus Freehand for Evaluating Computer-Generated Drawings},
  year = {2021},
  issue_date = {August 2021},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  volume = {40},
  number = {4},
  issn = {0730-0301},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3450626.3459819},
  doi = {10.1145/3450626.3459819},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Graph.},
  month = aug,
  numpages = {12},
  keywords = {sketch dataset, drawing process, stroke analysis}
}