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Affect-Conditioned Image Generation

Artificial Intelligence 2023-02-21 v1 Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract

In creativity support and computational co-creativity contexts, the task of discovering appropriate prompts for use with text-to-image generative models remains difficult. In many cases the creator wishes to evoke a certain impression with the image, but the task of conferring that succinctly in a text prompt poses a challenge: affective language is nuanced, complex, and model-specific. In this work we introduce a method for generating images conditioned on desired affect, quantified using a psychometrically validated three-component approach, that can be combined with conditioning on text descriptions. We first train a neural network for estimating the affect content of text and images from semantic embeddings, and then demonstrate how this can be used to exert control over a variety of generative models. We show examples of how affect modifies the outputs, provide quantitative and qualitative analysis of its capabilities, and discuss possible extensions and use cases.

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@article{arxiv.2302.09742,
  title  = {Affect-Conditioned Image Generation},
  author = {Francisco Ibarrola and Rohan Lulham and Kazjon Grace},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09742},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages, 8 figures