serdarciftci/KIDO

KIDO: Emotion Analysis of Children’s Drawings

About

KIDO is a novel dataset for analyzing how children express emotions through hand-drawn images and self-reported reflections. It contains 5,430 children’s drawings, each paired with text indicating whether the drawing represents happiness or sadness.

Unlike prior datasets that focus only on digital drawings from tablets, KIDO captures natural scanned hand-drawn expressions.

Details can be found in our paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11151239

Contents

drawings: 5,430 children's drawings
reflections: Children’s written reflections (Turkish+English Text)
Emotion label + demographic info (education level, gender)

Labels

Emotion: Happiness / Sadness
Education: Primary / Secondary
Gender: Male / Female

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@ARTICLE{KidoCiftciEtal2025,
author={Çiftçi, Serdar and Karci, Hasari and Karaca, Neval and Söylemez, Büşra and Koçakoğlu, Halil},
journal={IEEE Access},
title={Emotion Analysis of Children’s Drawings},
year={2025},
volume={13},
pages={159730-159748},
doi={10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3606359}
}