Introducing a Web Component and Data API for Quick, Draw!

First, in 2016, there was Quick, Draw!, which uses a neural network to guess what you're drawing. Since Quick, Draw! launched we have collected ... GoogleOpenSourceBlog ThelatestnewsfromGoogleonopensourcereleases,majorprojects,events,andstudentoutreachprograms. IntroducingaWebComponentandDataAPIforQuick,Draw! Thursday,November15,2018 Overthepastcoupleyears,theCreativeLabincollaborationwiththeHandwritingRecognitionteamhavereleasedafewexperimentsintherealmof“doodle”recognition. First,in2016,therewasQuick,Draw!,whichusesaneuralnetworktoguesswhatyou’redrawing. SinceQuick,Draw!launchedwehavecollectedover1billiondrawingsacross345categories. Inthewakeofthatpopularity,weopensourcedacollectionof50milliondrawingsgivingdevelopersaroundtheworldaccesstothedatasetandtheabilitytoconductresearchwithit. "Thedifferentwaysinwhichpeopledrawarelikedifferentnotesinsomeuniversallyhumanscale"- IanJohnson,UXEngineer@Google Sincetheinitialdatasetwasreleased,ithasbeenincredibletoseehowgraphs,t-sneclusters,andsimplyoverlappingmillionsofthesedoodleshavegivenustheabilitytoinferinterestinghumanbehaviors,acrossdifferentcultures. Oneexample,fromtheQuartzstudy,isthat86%ofAmericans(fromasampleof50,000)drawtheircirclescounterclockwise,while80%ofJapanese(fromasampleof800)drawthemclockwise.PartofthispatterninbehaviorcanbeattributedtothestrictstrokeorderinJapanesewriting,fromthetoplefttothebottomright. It’salsointerestingtoseehowthedatalookswhenit’soverlaidbycountry,asKyleMcDonalddid,whenhediscoveredthatsomecountriesdrawtheirchairsinperspectivewhileothersdrawthemstraighton. Onthemorefun,artisticspectrum,therearesomesimplebutcleverusesofthedatalikeNeilMendoza’sfacetrackingexperimentandDeborahSchmidt’slettercollages. SeethevideohereofNeilMendozamappingQuick,Draw!facialfeaturestoyourownfaceinfrontofawebcam SeetheprocessvideohereofDeborahSchmidtpackingQuickDrawdataintolettersusingOpenFrameworks Somehandytoolshavealsobeenreleasedfromthecommunitysincethereleaseofallthisdata,andoneofthosethatwe’rereleasingnowisaPolymercomponentthatallowsyoutodisplayadoodleinyourweb-basedprojectwithonelineofmarkup: ThePolymercomponentiscoupledwithaDataAPIthatlayersamassivefiledirectory(50millionfiles)andreturnsaJSONobjectoranHTMLcanvasrenderingforeachdrawing. Withoutdownloadingallthedata,youcanstartcreatingrightawayinprototypingyourideas. We’vealsoprovidedinstructionsforhowtohostthedataandAPIyourselfonGoogleCloudPlatform(formoreseriousprojectsthatdemandahigherrequestlimit).   OnereallyhandytoolwhenhostinganAPIonGoogleCloudisCloudEndpoints. ItallowedustolaunchademoAPIwithaquotalimitandauthenticationviaanAPIkey.   BydefininganOpenAPIspecification(hereistheQuick,Draw!DataAPIspec)andaddingthesethreelinestoourapp.yamlfile,anExtensibleServiceProxy(ESP)getsdeployedwithourAPIbackendcode(moreinstructionshere): endpoints_api_service: name:quickdrawfiles.appspot.com rollout_strategy:managed BasedontheOpenAPIspec,documentationisalsoautomaticallygeneratedforyou: WeusedapublicGoogleGroupasanaccesscontrollist,soanyonewhojoinscanthenhavetheAPIavailableintheirAPIlibrary. TheGoogleGroupusedasanAccessControlList Afterjoiningthegroup,youcansearchforandaddtheQuick,Draw!DataAPIinyourGCPproject ThiscomponentandDataAPIwillmakeiteasierfor creativesouttheretomanipulatethedatafortheirownresearch. Lookingtothefuture,apotentialnextstepfortheprojectcouldbetostoreeverythinginasingledatabaseformorecomplexqueries(i.e.“givemeanrecognizeddrawingfromChinainMarch2017”). Feedbackisalwayswelcome,andwehopethisinspiresevenmoretypesofprojectsusingthedata!MoredetailsontheprojectandtheincredibleresearchprojectsdoneusingitcanbefoundonourGitHubrepo.  ByNickJonas,CreativeTechnologist,CreativeLab Editor'sNote:Somemaynoticethatthisisn’ttheonlydatasetwe’veopensourcedrecently!Youcanfindmanymoredatasetsinouropensourceprojectdirectory. Labels: announcements , opensourcerelease    PopularPosts ExpandingGoogleSummerofCodein2022 GoogleSummerofCode2022mentoringorgsrevealed! 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