This repository contains the official TensorFlow 2.X implementation of:

Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro (ICMC/USP), Tu Bui (CVSSP/University of Surrey), John Collomosse (CVSSP/University of Surrey and Adobe Research), Moacir Ponti (ICMC/USP)

https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content_CVPR_2020/html/Ribeiro_Sketchformer_Transformer-Based_Representation_for_Sketched_Structure_CVPR_2020_paper.html https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.10381

Abstract: Sketchformer is a novel transformer-based representation for encoding free-hand sketches input in a vector form, i.e. as a sequence of strokes. Sketchformer effectively addresses multiple tasks: sketch classification, sketch based image retrieval (SBIR), and the reconstruction and interpolation of sketches. We report several variants exploring continuous and tokenized input representations, and contrast their performance. Our learned embedding, driven by a dictionary learning tokenization scheme, yields state of the art performance in classification and image retrieval tasks, when compared against baseline representations driven by LSTM sequence to sequence architectures: SketchRNN and derivatives. We show that sketch reconstruction and interpolation are improved significantly by the Sketchformer embedding for complex sketches with longer stroke sequences.

We used the Sketch-RNN QuickDraw Dataset, which can be downloaded as per-class .npz files from Google Cloud

After downloading the files, use our script prep_data/prepare-distributed-quickdraw to split the data into multiple files, which is the expected format of our data loader:

In this example we split the dataset into 400 chunks using all 345 classes and remove 100 chunks, which makes our chunked dataset contain class-balanced 75% of the original:

 python prep_data/prepare-distributed-quickdraw.py \
    --dataset-dir /path/to/download \
    --n-chunks 400 --n-classes 345 --cut-chunks 100 \
    --target-dir /target/path

You should choose your number of chunks by balancing your memory and read speed constraints.

If you want to use our dictionary-based sketch tokenizer, the dictionary must be built beforehand.

 python prep_data/sketch_token/create_token_dict.py \
    --dataset-dir /path/to/quickdraw/ \
    --method mini-batch-k-mean

Inside the dependencies folder you will find two requirements files (requirements.txt and git-requirements.txt) and a Dockerfile. It is possible to either build the docker image or a virtualenv from the requirements. Python 3.6 is recommended and Tensorflow 2.X obligatory.

Our training script breaks the params into three categories; (i) base params, common to any model, (ii) model-specific params and (iii) data params. You can see all params available using --help-hps:

$ python train.py sketch-transformer-tf2 --help-hps


Base model default parameters:
{'autograph': True,
 'batch_size': 128,
 'goal': 'No description',
 'log_every': 100,
 'notify_every': 1000,
 'num_epochs': 10,
 'safety_save': 0.5,
 'save_every': 1.0,
 'slack_config': 'token.secret'}

sketch-transformer-tf2 default parameters:
{'attn_version': 1,
 'blind_decoder_mask': True,
 'class_buffer_layers': 0,
 'class_dropout': 0.1,
 'class_weight': 1.0,
 'd_model': 128,
 'dff': 512,
 'do_classification': True,
 'do_reconstruction': True,
 'dropout_rate': 0.1,
 'is_training': True,
 'lowerdim': 256,
 'lr': 0.01,
 'lr_scheduler': 'WarmupDecay',
 'num_heads': 8,
 'num_layers': 4,
 'optimizer': 'Adam',
 'recon_weight': 1.0,
 'warmup_steps': 10000}

stroke3-distributed data loader default parameters:
{'augment_stroke_prob': 0.1,
 'max_seq_len': 200,
 'random_scale_factor': 0.1,
 'shuffle_stroke': False,
 'token_type': 'dictionary',
 'tokenizer_dict_file': 'prep_data/sketch_token/token_dict.pkl',
 'tokenizer_resolution': 100,
 'use_absolute_strokes': False,
 'use_continuous_data': False}

To override default params use a list of comma-separated values, like bellow:

python train.py sketch-transformer-tf2 \
    --dataset /path/to/prepared/data \
    -o /path/to/target/output/ \
    --data-hparams use_continuous_data=False \
    --base-hparams num_epochs=50,batch_size=128,save_every=50.,safety_save=50.,log_every=10,notify_every=5000 \
    --hparams d_model=256 \
    --id test --gpu 1 --resume latest

During training and evaluation, plots of losses and evaluation metrics are saved every notify_every steps. Those plots can be sent to slack as well if the user provides a file with the following format:

SLACK-BOT-TOKEN
slack_channel

And sets the filename in the 'slack_config' parameter.

The evaluate-metrics.py script follows most of the same rules as the train.py one. By using the same --id and output_dir (-o), the model will automatically read the hparams saved and rebuild the model. You need to specify the --metrics as a list of evaluation metrics the model can compute. Metrics are implemented in metrics, have a look there if you are unsure which ones to chose.

Example:

python evaluate-metrics.py sketch-transformer-tf2 \
    --dataset /path/to/prepared/data \
    -o /path/to/target/output/ --id test \
    --gpu 0 --resume /path/to/checkpoint \
    --metrics "sketch-reconstruction" "val-clas-acc" "tsne" "tsne-predicted"

The --resume parameter can be either none, latest or a path. When using latest, make sure to use the same --id and output_dir that were used for training.

The run-experiment.py script can be used to run quick experiments if the user wants to implement one. We have included the extract-embeddings experiment to make it easy to use the pretrained models just for that.

Usage:

python run-experiment.py extract-embeddings \
    --model-name sketch-transformer-tf2 \
    --model-id id-of-model-youre-loading
    --dataset /path/to/prepared/data \
    -o /path/to/output/of/models/youre/loading --id test \
    --gpu 0 --resume /path/to/checkpoint \
    --exp-hparams params=for,this=experiment

Example where we load the continuous model from Google Drive and extract embeddings:

python run-experiment.py extract-embeddings \
    --model-name sketch-transformer-tf2 \
    --model-id cvpr_tform_cont \
    --dataset /path/to/prepared/data \
    -o /path/to/output/of/models/youre/loading --gpu 0 \
    --resume /path/to/output/of/models/youre/loading/sketch-transformer-tf2-cvpr_tform_cont/weights/ckpt-12 \
    --exp-hparams batch_size=256,target_file='some/path/embeddings.npz'

Pretrained models for continuous, dict-tokenized and grid-tokenized data schemes are available for download in Google Drive

@inproceedings{Sketchformer2020,
 title = {Sketchformer: Transformer-based Representation for Sketched Structure},
 author = {Leo Sampaio Ferraz Ribeiro and Tu Bui and John Collomosse and Moacir Ponti},
 booktitle = {Proc. CVPR},
 year = {2020},
}