They used a data set from the Technical University of Berlin, which had used 20,000 hand-drawn images to test how well human beings could recognise sketches. Hands are particularly difficult to draw.

The Lawrenceville Police Department released a sketch to help identify human skeletal remains found on State Route 316 and Duluth Highway. Investigators and cadaver dogs searched the area ...

In the study, Sketch-a-Net was able to correctly identify 74.5% of drawings, which is the first time that a machine has surpassed the human sketch recognition benchmark of 73.1%. Training a ...