MarkMoHR / Awesome-Sketch-Synthesis

Awesome-Sketch-Synthesis A collection of papers about Sketch Synthesis (Generation). Mainly focus on stroke-level vector sketch synthesis. > Feel free to create a PR or an issue. **Outlines** • 0. Survey • 1. Datasets • 2. Sketch-Synthesis Approaches • 1) Semantic Concept-to-sketch • 2) Photo-to-sketch • 3) Text/Attribute-to-sketch • 4) 3D shape-to-sketch • 5) Art-to-sketch • 3. Vector Graphics Generation (2D) • 4. Vector Graphics Generation (3D) • 5. Vector Graphics Generation (4D) --- • Survey | Paper | Source | Code/Project Link | | --- | --- | --- | | Deep Learning for Free-Hand Sketch: A Survey | TPAMI 2022 | [[code]](https://github.com/PengBoXiangShang/torchsketch) | • Datasets Here means having *svg* data. means having the photo-sketch paired data. Level Dataset Source Vector strokes With photos Notes Characters Omniglot :heavy_check_mark: :x: Alphabets characters KanjiVG :heavy_check_mark: :x: Chinese characters Kuzushiji :x: :x: Japanese characters Icon FIGR-8-SVG :heavy_check_mark: :x: Icons with text descriptions Systematic Symbol SketchIME ACM MM 2023 :heavy_check_mark: :x: Systematic sketches with semantic annotations Instance-level TU-Berlin SIGGRAPH 2012 :heavy_check_mark: :x: Multi-category hand sketches Sketchy SIGGRAPH 2016 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Multi-category photo-sketch paired QuickDraw ICLR 2018 :heavy_check_mark: :x: Multi-category hand sketches QMUL-Shoe-Chair-V2 CVPR 2016 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Only two categories Sketch Perceptual Grouping (SPG) ECCV 2018 :heavy_check_mark: :x: With part-level semantic segmentation information FaceX AAAI 2019 :heavy_check_mark: :x: Labeled facial sketches Creative Sketch ICLR 2021 :heavy_check_mark: :x: With annotated part segmentation ImageNet-Sketch NeurIPS 2019 :x: :x: 50 images for each of the 1000 ImageNet classes SEVA NeurIPS 2023 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: 90K human-generated sketches that vary in detail Sketchtopia CVPR 2025 :heavy_check_mark: :x: Scene-level SketchyScene ECCV 2018 :x: :heavy_check_mark: With semantic/instance segmentation information CMPlaces TPAMI 2018 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Cross-modal scene dataset Context-Skecth Expressive 2018 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Context-based scene sketches for co-classification SketchyCOCO CVPR 2020 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Scene sketch, segmentation and normal images FS-COCO ECCV 2022 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Scene sketches with text description SFSD VC 2022 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Completely hand-drawn scene sketches with label annotation Drawing from photos Photo-Sketching WACV 2019 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: ScenePhoto-sketch paired Tracing-vs-Freehand SIGGRAPH 2021 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Tracings and freehand drawings of images Drawing from 3D models DifferSketching SIGGRAPH Asia 2022 :heavy_check_mark: :x: 3D model-sketch paired, with novice and professional ones Portrait CUFS TPAMI 2009 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Face-sketch pairs APDrawing CVPR 2019 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Portrait-sketch paired SKSF-A EG 2024 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Face-sketch pairs of seven styles Children's Drawing Amateur Drawings TOG 2023 :x: :heavy_check_mark: With character bounding boxes, segmentation masks, and joint location annotations Rough sketch Da Vinci CGI 2018 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Line drawing restoration dataset Rough Sketch Benchmark SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 :heavy_check_mark: :heavy_check_mark: Rough and clean sketch pairs (only for evaluation) CAD ld3d SIGGRAPH 2008 :x: :x: Line Drawings of 3D Shapes OpenSketch SIGGRAPH Asia 2019 :heavy_check_mark: :x: Product Design Sketches SketchGraphs ICML 2020 Workshop :heavy_check_mark: :x: Sketches extracted from real-world CAD models Fusion 360 Gallery SIGGRAPH 2021 :heavy_check_mark: :x: For 'sketch and extrude' designs FloorPlanCAD ICCV 2021 :heavy_check_mark: :x: With instance and semantic annotations UniSketch AAAI 2026 :heavy_check_mark: :x: With 7 geometric primitives and 23 2D constraints Anime Danbooru2021 / :x: :heavy_check_mark: Anime images annotated with tags DanbooRegion ECCV 2020 :x: :x: Anime images with region annotations Danbooru-Parsing TOG 2023 :x: :heavy_check_mark: For anime portrait parsing and anime translation CreativeFlow+ CVPR 2019 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Large densely annotated artistic video dataset ATD-12K CVPR 2021 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Animation frames with flow annotations AnimeRun NeurIPS 2022 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Correspondence dataset for 2D-styled cartoons AnimeCeleb ECCV 2022 :x: :x: Animation head images with pose annotations PaintBucket-Character CVPR 2024 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Animation frames with region annotations Sakuga-42M (link 2) arxiv 24.05 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Cartoon videos with text descriptions and tags Anita online 2024 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Professional hand-drawn cartoon keyframes, with 1080P sketch and color images MangaSeg CVPR 2025 :x: :heavy_check_mark: Manga segmentation annotation • Sketch-Synthesis Approaches 1) Semantic Concept-to-sketch Level Paper Source Code/Project Link Instance-level A Neural Representation of Sketch Drawings (sketch-rnn) ICLR 2018 [Code] [Project] [Demo] Sketch-pix2seq: a Model to Generate Sketches of Multiple Categories [Code] AI-Sketcher : A Deep Generative Model for Producing High-Quality Sketches AAAI 2019 [Project] Stroke-based sketched symbol reconstruction and segmentation (stroke-rnn) CGA 2019 BézierSketch: A generative model for scalable vector sketches ECCV 2020 [Code] Pixelor: A Competitive Sketching AI Agent. So you think you can beat me? SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 [Project] [Code] Creative Sketch Generation ICLR 2021 [Proje…