README.md

metadata

license: mit
task_categories:
  - image-to-image
tags:
  - sketch
  - image-generation
  - computer-vision
  - sketch-to-image
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K

Sketchy Dataset

This is the Sketchy database used for sketch-to-image generation research.

Dataset Details

• Uploaded: 2026-03-09
• Files: 87987
• Total Size: 1.03 GB
• Format: Images (sketches and photos)

Dataset Structure

sketchy/
├── train/
│   ├── sketches/
│   └── photos/
├── val/
│   ├── sketches/
│   └── photos/
└── test/
    ├── sketches/
    └── photos/

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Load the dataset
dataset = load_dataset("DrRORAL/sketchy-dataset")

# Access examples
sketch = dataset['train']['sketch'][0]
photo = dataset['train']['photo'][0]

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite the original Sketchy database paper:

@inproceedings{sangkloy2016sketchy,
  title={The sketchy database: learning to retrieve badly drawn bunnies},
  author={Sangkloy, Patsorn and Burnell, Nathan and Ham, Cusuh and Hays, James},
  booktitle={ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
  year={2016}
}

License

Please refer to the original Sketchy database license terms.