Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting Dataset

Paper Title: "End-to-End Chinese Landscape Painting Creation Using Generative Adversarial Networks"
ArXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.05552
Abstract:
Current GAN-based art generation methods produce unoriginal artwork due to their dependence on conditional input. Here, we propose Sketch-And-Paint GAN (SAPGAN), the first model which generates Chinese landscape paintings from end to end, without conditional input. SAPGAN is composed of two GANs: SketchGAN for generation of edge maps, and PaintGAN for subsequent edge-to-painting translation. Our model is trained on a new dataset of traditional Chinese landscape paintings never before used for generative research. A 242-person Visual Turing Test study reveals that SAPGAN paintings are mistaken as human artwork with 55% frequency, significantly outperforming paintings from baseline GANs. Our work lays a groundwork for truly machine-original art generation.

Sketch-And-Paint GAN, compared with baseline models:

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Here, we provide the dataset used to train our Sketch-And-Paint GAN model. The dataset consists of 2,192 high-quality traditional Chinese landscape paintings (中国山水画). All paintings are sized 512x512, from the following sources:

• Princeton University Art Museum, 362 paintings
• Harvard University Art Museum, 101 paintings
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, 428 paintings
• Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art, 1,301 paintings

For more details about dataset collection methodology, please see the paper.

Dataset Samples:

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Please cite the paper if you choose to use this dataset for your research.

@misc{xue2020endtoend,
      title={End-to-End Chinese Landscape Painting Creation Using Generative Adversarial Networks}, 
      author={Alice Xue},
      year={2020},
      eprint={2011.05552},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV}
}