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In this paper, we focus on the task of generating a pun sentence given a pair of word senses. A major challenge for pun generation is the lack of large-scale pun corpus to guide the supervised learning. To remedy this, we propose an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Fuli Luo , Shunyao Li , Pengcheng Yang , Lei li , Baobao Chang , Zhifang Sui , Xu Sun

While most image captioning aims to generate objective descriptions of images, the last few years have seen work on generating visually grounded image captions which have a specific style (e.g., incorporating positive or negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris , Len Hamey

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown great capacity on image generation, in which a discriminative model guides the training of a generative model to construct images that resemble real images. Recently, GANs have been extended…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Xinyue Liu , Xiangnan Kong , Lei Liu , Kuorong Chiang

Iteratively refining and critiquing sketches are crucial steps to developing effective designs. We introduce Scones, a mixed-initiative, machine-learning-driven system that enables users to iteratively author sketches from text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Forrest Huang , Eldon Schoop , David Ha , John Canny

Generative AI models offer many possibilities for text creation and transformation. Current graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for prompting them lack support for iterative exploration, as they do not represent prompts as actionable interface…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Rifat Mehreen Amin , Oliver Hans Kühle , Daniel Buschek , Andreas Butz

A widespread view is that Artificial Intelligence cannot be creative. We tested this assumption by comparing human-generated ideas with those generated by six Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) chatbots: $alpa.\!ai$, $Copy.\!ai$,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jennifer Haase , Paul H. P. Hanel

Generative adversarial nets (GAN) has been successfully introduced for generating text to alleviate the exposure bias. However, discriminators in these models only evaluate the entire sequence, which causes feedback sparsity and mode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Xingyuan Chen , Yanzhe Li , Peng Jin , Jiuhua Zhang , Xinyu Dai , Jiajun Chen , Gang Song

Drawing and annotating comic illustrations is a complex and difficult process. No existing machine learning algorithms have been developed to create comic illustrations based on descriptions of illustrations, or the dialogue in comics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ben Proven-Bessel , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Chen

Illustration is a fundamental mode of human expression and communication. Certain types of motion that accompany speech can provide this illustrative mode of communication. While Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies (AR/VR) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hui Xian Grace Lim , Xuanming Cui , Yogesh S Rawat , Ser-Nam Lim

We propose, WarpGAN, a fully automatic network that can generate caricatures given an input face photo. Besides transferring rich texture styles, WarpGAN learns to automatically predict a set of control points that can warp the photo into a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Yichun Shi , Debayan Deb , Anil K. Jain

Whilst there are perhaps only a few scientific methods, there seem to be almost as many artistic methods as there are artists. Artistic processes appear to inhabit the highest order of open-endedness. To begin to understand some of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Chrisantha Fernando , S. M. Ali Eslami , Jean-Baptiste Alayrac , Piotr Mirowski , Dylan Banarse , Simon Osindero

Deep generative models, such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), have been employed widely in computational creativity research. However, such models discourage out-of-distribution generation to avoid spurious sample generation, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Celia Cintas , Payel Das , Brian Quanz , Skyler Speakman , Victor Akinwande , Pin-Yu Chen

In medical imaging, image synthesis is the estimation process of one image (sequence, modality) from another image (sequence, modality). Since images with different modalities provide diverse biomarkers and capture various features,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Firoozeh Shomal Zadeh , Sevda Molani , Maysam Orouskhani , Marziyeh Rezaei , Mehrzad Shafiei , Hossein Abbasi

We propose an interactive art project to make those rendered invisible by the COVID-19 crisis and its concomitant solitude reappear through the welcome melody of laughter, and connections created and explored through advanced laughter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 M. Mehdi Afsar , Eric Park , Étienne Paquette , Gauthier Gidel , Kory W. Mathewson , Eilif Muller

We present a fully automatic method to generate detailed and accurate artistic shadows from pairs of line drawing sketches and lighting directions. We also contribute a new dataset of one thousand examples of pairs of line drawings and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Qingyuan Zheng , Zhuoru Li , Adam Bargteil

Generating multiple categories of texts is a challenging task and draws more and more attention. Since generative adversarial nets (GANs) have shown competitive results on general text generation, they are extended for category text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Zhiyue Liu , Jiahai Wang , Zhiwei Liang

Bionic design refers to an approach of generative creativity in which a target object (e.g. a floor lamp) is designed to contain features of biological source objects (e.g. flowers), resulting in creative biologically-inspired design. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Simiao Yu , Hao Dong , Pan Wang , Chao Wu , Yike Guo

Generative deep learning systems offer powerful tools for artefact generation, given their ability to model distributions of data and generate high-fidelity results. In the context of computational creativity, however, a major shortcoming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Terence Broad , Sebastian Berns , Simon Colton , Mick Grierson

In this work we aim to develop a universal sketch grouper. That is, a grouper that can be applied to sketches of any category in any domain to group constituent strokes/segments into semantically meaningful object parts. The first obstacle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Ke Li , Kaiyue Pang , Jifei Song , Yi-Zhe Song , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Honggang Zhang

The research topic of sketch-to-portrait generation has witnessed a boost of progress with deep learning techniques. The recently proposed StyleGAN architectures achieve state-of-the-art generation ability but the original StyleGAN is not…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Wanchao Su , Hui Ye , Shu-Yu Chen , Lin Gao , Hongbo Fu