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Social concepts referring to non-physical objects--such as revolution, violence, or friendship--are powerful tools to describe, index, and query the content of visual data, including ever-growing collections of art images from the Cultural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Delfina Sol Martinez Pandiani , Valentina Presutti

How do we imagine visual objects and combine them to create new forms? To answer this question, we need to explore the cognitive, computational and neural mechanisms underlying imagery and creativity. The body of research on deep learning…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-14 Shekoofeh Hedayati , Roger Beaty , Brad Wyble

A descriptive approach for automatic generation of visual blends is presented. The implemented system, the Blender, is composed of two components: the Mapper and the Visual Blender. The approach uses structured visual representations along…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-02-20 João M. Cunha , João Gonçalves , Pedro Martins , Penousal Machado , Amílcar Cardoso

Graphic designers often get inspiration through the recombination of references. Our formative study (N=6) reveals that graphic designers focus on conceptual keywords during this process, and want support for discovering the keywords,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 DaEun Choi , Sumin Hong , Jeongeon Park , John Joon Young Chung , Juho Kim

This paper presents a computational model for conceptual shifts, based on a novelty metric applied to a vector representation generated through deep learning. This model is integrated into a co-creative design system, which enables a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Pegah Karimi , Mary Lou Maher , Nicholas Davis , Kazjon Grace

Our understanding of the visual world is centered around various concept axes, characterizing different aspects of visual entities. While different concept axes can be easily specified by language, e.g. color, the exact visual nuances along…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Sharon Lee , Yunzhi Zhang , Shangzhe Wu , Jiajun Wu

Generative, ML-driven interactive systems have the potential to change how people interact with computers in creative processes - turning tools into co-creators. However, it is still unclear how we might achieve effective human-AI…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Frederic Gmeiner , Kenneth Holstein , Nikolas Martelaro

A creative image-and-text generative AI system mimics humans' extraordinary abilities to provide users with diverse and comprehensive caption suggestions, as well as rich image creations. In this work, we demonstrate such an AI creation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Yupan Huang , Bei Liu , Jianlong Fu , Yutong Lu

We present Thinking with Generated Images, a novel paradigm that fundamentally transforms how large multimodal models (LMMs) engage with visual reasoning by enabling them to natively think across text and vision modalities through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ethan Chern , Zhulin Hu , Steffi Chern , Siqi Kou , Jiadi Su , Yan Ma , Zhijie Deng , Pengfei Liu

Generative AI (GenAI) tools are radically expanding the scope and capability of automation in knowledge work such as academic research. While promising for augmenting cognition and streamlining processes, AI-assisted research tools may also…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Runlong Ye , Matthew Varona , Oliver Huang , Patrick Yung Kang Lee , Michael Liut , Carolina Nobre

We, as a society, need artists to help us interpret and explain science, but what does an artist's studio look like when today's science is built upon the language of large, increasingly complex data? This paper presents a data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Bridger Herman , Francesca Samsel , Annie Bares , Seth Johnson , Greg Abram , Daniel F. Keefe

Graphic design is an effective language for visual communication. Using complex composition of visual elements (e.g., shape, color, font) guided by design principles and aesthetics, design helps produce more visually-appealing content. The…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Danqing Huang , Jiaqi Guo , Shizhao Sun , Hanling Tian , Jieru Lin , Zheng Hu , Chin-Yew Lin , Jian-Guang Lou , Dongmei Zhang

The integration of generative AI in visual art has revolutionized not only how visual content is created but also how AI interacts with and reflects the underlying domain knowledge. This survey explores the emerging realm of diffusion-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Bingyuan Wang , Qifeng Chen , Zeyu Wang

Generative AI has enabled novice designers to quickly create professional-looking visual representations for product concepts. However, novices have limited domain knowledge that could constrain their ability to write prompts that…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Sirui Tao , Ivan Liang , Cindy Peng , Zhiqing Wang , Srishti Palani , Steven P. Dow

This study explores the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI), specifically large language models, with multi-modal analogical reasoning as an innovative approach to enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Cao , Zijian Ding , Gyeong-Geon Lee , Jiajun Jiao , Jionghao Lin , Xiaoming Zhai

A creative idea is often born from transforming, combining, and modifying ideas from existing visual examples capturing various concepts. However, one cannot simply copy the concept as a whole, and inspiration is achieved by examining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yael Vinker , Andrey Voynov , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir

There is increased interest in using generative AI to create 3D spaces for Virtual Reality (VR) applications. However, today's models produce artificial environments, falling short of supporting collaborative tasks that benefit from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Nels Numan , Shwetha Rajaram , Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel , Nicolai Marquardt , Andrew D. Wilson

Creative visual concept generation often draws inspiration from specific concepts in a reference image to produce relevant outcomes. However, existing methods are typically constrained to single-aspect concept generation or are easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Yangyang Li , Daqing Liu , Wu Liu , Allen He , Xinchen Liu , Yongdong Zhang , Guoqing Jin

We introduce a novel approach for concept blending in pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, aiming to generate images at the intersection of multiple text prompts. At each time step during diffusion denoising, our algorithm forecasts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Divya Kothandaraman , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

Generative AI techniques like those that synthesize images from text (text-to-image models) offer new possibilities for creatively imagining new ideas. We investigate the capabilities of these models to help communities engage in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Ziv Epstein , Hope Schroeder , Dava Newman