Working out of the London-based university's computer science lab, the team fed labelled examples from pre-defined categories of sketches into the artificial neurons of their network. A pretty ...

Training a computer to identify sketches could be useful for online shopping, if a customer wanted to draw out a product and have the database recognise it, or to match police sketches to security ...

The sketches are first scanned into the computer. Then, a digital exoskeleton is created to define the character's shape and to give the computer the control points necessary to animate the figure.