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Automatic synthesis of faces from visual attributes is an important problem in computer vision and has wide applications in law enforcement and entertainment. With the advent of deep generative convolutional neural networks (CNNs), attempts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Xing Di , Vishal M. Patel

We present Lode Encoder, a gamified mixed-initiative level creation system for the classic platform-puzzle game Lode Runner. The system is built around several autoencoders which are trained on sets of Lode Runner levels. When fed with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Debosmita Bhaumik , Ahmed Khalifa , Julian Togelius

We propose a hybrid algorithmic strategy for complex stochastic optimization problems, which combines the use of scenario trees from multistage stochastic programming with machine learning techniques for learning a policy in the form of a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-25 Boris Defourny , Damien Ernst , Louis Wehenkel

With video games steadily increasing in complexity, automated generation of game content has found widespread interest. However, the task of 3D gaming map art creation remains underexplored to date due to its unique complexity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Vitaly Gnatyuk , Valeriia Koriukina , Ilya Levoshevich , Pavel Nurminskiy , Guenter Wallner

Defect segmentation is crucial for quality control in advanced manufacturing, yet data scarcity poses challenges for state-of-the-art supervised deep learning. Synthetic defect data generation is a popular approach for mitigating data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shancong Mou , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Shiyu Li , Yuxuan Liu , C Thomas , Meng Cao , Haoping Bai , Oncel Tuzel , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Jianjun Shi

Despite some exciting progress on high-quality image generation from structured(scene graphs) or free-form(sentences) descriptions, most of them only guarantee the image-level semantical consistency, i.e. the generated image matching the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Yikang Li , Tao Ma , Yeqi Bai , Nan Duan , Sining Wei , Xiaogang Wang

Video world models have shown immense promise for interactive simulation and entertainment, but current systems still struggle with two important aspects of interactivity: user control over the environment for reproducible, editable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ryan Po , David Junhao Zhang , Amir Hertz , Gordon Wetzstein , Neal Wadhwa , Nataniel Ruiz

Generation of images from scene graphs is a promising direction towards explicit scene generation and manipulation. However, the images generated from the scene graphs lack quality, which in part comes due to high difficulty and diversity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Azade Farshad , Sabrina Musatian , Helisa Dhamo , Nassir Navab

We present the Semantic Robot Programming (SRP) paradigm as a convergence of robot programming by demonstration and semantic mapping. In SRP, a user can directly program a robot manipulator by demonstrating a snapshot of their intended goal…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Zhen Zeng , Zheming Zhou , Zhiqiang Sui , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

In this work we propose a deep learning pipeline to predict the visual future appearance of an urban scene. Despite recent advances, generating the entire scene in an end-to-end fashion is still far from being achieved. Instead, here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Alessandro Simoni , Luca Bergamini , Andrea Palazzi , Simone Calderara , Rita Cucchiara

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a powerful indirect genotype-to-phenotype mapping for evolutionary search. Much previous work applying GANs to level generation focuses on fixed-size segments combined into a whole level, but…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Jacob Schrum , Benjamin Capps , Kirby Steckel , Vanessa Volz , Sebastian Risi

Recent mesh generation approaches typically tokenize triangle meshes into sequences of tokens and train autoregressive models to generate these tokens sequentially. Despite substantial progress, such token sequences inevitably reuse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jeonghwan Kim , Yushi Lan , Armando Fortes , Yongwei Chen , Xingang Pan

The role of AI-generated synthetic data has recently been expanded to support realistic Monte Carlo simulations. However, guidance is limited on generating data with multilevel structures and designing simulations based on such data. This…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-08 Youmi Suk , Chenguang Pan , Weixuan Xiao

The balancing process for game levels in competitive two-player contexts involves a lot of manual work and testing, particularly for non-symmetrical game levels. In this work, we frame game balancing as a procedural content generation task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Florian Rupp , Manuel Eberhardinger , Kai Eckert

This paper proposes the novel task of video generation conditioned on a SINGLE semantic label map, which provides a good balance between flexibility and quality in the generation process. Different from typical end-to-end approaches, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Junting Pan , Chengyu Wang , Xu Jia , Jing Shao , Lu Sheng , Junjie Yan , Xiaogang Wang

Large language models trained for code generation can be applied to speaking virtual worlds into existence (creating virtual worlds). In this work we show that prompt-based methods can both accelerate in-VR level editing, as well as can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Jasmine Roberts , Andrzej Banburski-Fahey , Jaron Lanier

What is a useful skill hierarchy for an autonomous agent? We propose an answer based on a graphical representation of how the interaction between an agent and its environment may unfold. Our approach uses modularity maximisation as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Joshua B. Evans , Özgür Şimşek

Purpose: A supervised learning framework is proposed to automatically generate MR sequences and corresponding reconstruction based on the target contrast of interest. Combined with a flexible, task-driven cost function this allows for an…

Neural language model-based approaches to automated story generation suffer from two important limitations. First, language model-based story generators generally do not work toward a given goal or ending. Second, they often lose coherence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Louis Castricato , Spencer Frazier , Jonathan Balloch , Nitya Tarakad , Mark Riedl

Systematic scenario generation (SG) methods have emerged as an invaluable tool to handle uncertainty towards the efficient solution of stochastic programming (SP) problems. The quality of SG methods depends on their consistency to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-07 Georgios L. Bounitsis , Lazaros G. Papageorgiou , Vassilis M. Charitopoulos