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Sketchyscene: Richly-annotated scene sketches

  • Changqing Zou
  • , Qian Yu
  • , Ruofei Du
  • , Haoran Mo
  • , Yi Zhe Song
  • , Tao Xiang
  • , Chengying Gao
  • , Baoquan Chen*
  • , Hao Zhang
  • *Corresponding author for this work
  • University of Maryland, College Park
  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Sun Yat-Sen University
  • Shandong University
  • Simon Fraser University

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Abstract

We contribute the first large-scale dataset of scene sketches, SketchyScene, with the goal of advancing research on sketch understanding at both the object and scene level. The dataset is created through a novel and carefully designed crowdsourcing pipeline, enabling users to efficiently generate large quantities of realistic and diverse scene sketches. SketchyScene contains more than 29,000 scene-level sketches, 7,000+ pairs of scene templates and photos, and 11,000+ object sketches. All objects in the scene sketches have ground-truth semantic and instance masks. The dataset is also highly scalable and extensible, easily allowing augmenting and/or changing scene composition. We demonstrate the potential impact of SketchyScene by training new computational models for semantic segmentation of scene sketches and showing how the new dataset enables several applications including image retrieval, sketch colorization, editing, and captioning, etc. The dataset and code can be found at https://github.com/SketchyScene/SketchyScene.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Vision – ECCV 2018 - 15th European Conference, 2018, Proceedings
EditorsYair Weiss, Vittorio Ferrari, Cristian Sminchisescu, Martial Hebert
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages438-454
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783030012663
DOIs
StatePublished - 2018
Externally publishedYes
Event15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 8 Sep 201814 Sep 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11219 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference15th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period8/09/1814/09/18

Keywords

  • Scene sketch
  • Sketch dataset
  • Sketch segmentation

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