Interactive tools for exploring a large dataset of children's drawings produced by children ages 2 to 10. Examine how drawings of the same concept change with age, watch them unfold stroke by stroke, and see how well a model recognizes them.
Data were collected through interactive drawing games at the San Jose Children's Discovery Museum and at Birch Aquarium in San Diego.
37,770 drawings from 48 categories laid out in CLIP embedding space and colored by model recognizability. Filter by category, age, and recognizability, and recompute the layout on any selection.
2,088 drawings from 16 categories rendered one stroke at a time, with each stroke colored by its semantic part (body, ear, wheel) and inter-annotator agreement. Compare two categories side by side.
2,141 drawings of 12 object categories from 72 children in a longitudinal drawing dataset, revisited across ~15 months (ages 3–6). Watch one child's tree, house, or person change session by session, or see a category develop across the whole sample — strokes colored by labeled part.
602 drawings and 538 descriptions of six sea animals, shown side by side, linking how a concept is drawn to how it is described.
4,387 drawings of 12 object categories by children ages 4–9 at four international sites — San Jose, Beijing, New Delhi, and Kisumu — laid out in CLIP embedding space. Compare category structure, recognizability, and cross-site divergence across sites and ages.
Long, B., Fan, J. E., Huey, H., Chai, Z., & Frank, M. C. (2024). Parallel developmental changes in children's production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts. Nature Communications. Paper, data (OSF), code.
