Teaching Machines to Draw

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Teaching Machines to Draw

Thursday, April 13, 2017

Posted by David Ha, Google Brain Resident Abstract visual communication is a key part of how people convey ideas to one another. From a young age, children develop the ability to depict objects, and arguably even emotions, with only a few pen strokes. These simple drawings may not resemble reality as captured by a photograph, but they do tell us something about how people represent and reconstruct images of the world around them.

Vector drawings produced by sketch-rnn.

In our recent paper, “A Neural Representation of Sketch Drawings”, we present a generative recurrent neural network capable of producing sketches of common objects, with the goal of training a machine to draw and generalize abstract concepts in a manner