Animal Sketches

Can I classify sketches of bears, cats, & dogs?

Andrew Bergman
Nov 5 · 5 min read

Google has a game called Quick, Draw! in which the user has to sketch six different things with a time limit of 20 seconds per drawing. It’s not just a fun game: they have the data available open source on GitHub for use in machine learning projects and for research.

Why Sketches?

Character recognition is a subset of image classification which has applications from reading X-rays to helping autonomous cars drive safely. Character recognition has a lot of…

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