Computerized Line-Drawings Database

This database is composed of 30 classes gathering 696 images + a trash class gathering 1595 unclassified images. These artworks are copyrighted and are used here under the limitations of the Fair Use doctrine. We asked two people to group some images according to their preattentive visual impression as defined by Julesz, leading to the 30 classes (696 images) presented here. The rest of the database (1595 images) was too heterogenous to be classified into significant classes according to these two people.

Please, click on a drawing to see the Nc closest results to your query example, according to the 11 content-based features described in our submitted paper and in our Computational Aesthetics 2008 paper. Nc is the class size to which the query belongs.

You can download this database here (76mo).


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