Poster
CLIPDraw: Exploring Text-to-Drawing Synthesis through Language-Image Encoders
Kevin Frans · Lisa Soros · Olaf Witkowski
Hall J (level 1) #928
Keywords: [ image synthesis ] [ CLIP ] [ Computer Vision ] [ language to text ] [ art ] [ creativity ]
CLIPDraw is an algorithm that synthesizes novel drawings from natural language input. It does not require any additional training; rather, a pre-trained CLIP language-image encoder is used as a metric for maximizing similarity between the given description and a generated drawing. Crucially, CLIPDraw operates over vector strokes rather than pixel images, which biases drawings towards simpler human-recognizable shapes. Results compare CLIPDraw with other synthesis-through-optimization methods, as well as highlight various interesting behaviors of CLIPDraw.