ETCHA SketchesSketch of a circuit

This is the home of the Experimental Test Corpus of Hand Annotated Sketches (ETCHA Sketches). It is a collection of sketches collected on a Tablet PC and a set of annotations for many of the strokes.  The annotations currently are labellings of individual strokes as primitive shapes: line, arc, ellipse, polyline, polygon, and other. The sketches are drawn from four domains: simple geometric figures, circuit diagrams, floor plans, and family trees.

The possible uses of this data include (but should by no means be limited to) training and testing of recognition systems and exploring properties of naturally drawn sketches.

If you publish research based in part on data found in this repository, then in your acknowledgments please cite the following paper, which describes the data and the repository:

Michael Oltmans, Christine Alvarado, and Randall Davis. ETCHA Sketches: Lessons Learned from Collecting Sketch Data. In Making Pen-Based Interaction Intelligent and Natural. October 2004.

This will help others to obtain the same data sets and replicate your
experiments. Thank you.
Download the data
The description of the file formats (Please see our more recent SketchML format)

Sketch of a family treeSketch of a floor plan


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Contact: Mike Oltmans