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colin_morris Blog Toys About Jun 7, 2017 Have you played Quick, Draw! yet? It’s basically Pictionary, played against a neural network, and it’s a lot of fun. Not long ago, Google released a dataset of some of the millions of sketches people have drawn so far over 345 categories. In this post, I’ll just be looking at sketches in the ‘flamingo’ category. You can browse a random sample here . Some of them are lovely. Others, well… It's, um, a viking ship with a chicken carved into the prow? What if we want to automatically identify the jankiest flamingos in the dataset? Along with the datasets, Google has released some pre-trained models that use the Sketch-RNN architecture described in this paper . These models were trained to generate new sketches. For example: But we can also repurpose them to get some insight into existing human-generated ...

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