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This study investigates the aesthetic experience and educational value of collaborative artmaking with generative artificial intelligence (AI) among young learners and art students. Based on a survey of 112 participants, we examine how…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Chengyuan Zhang , Suzhe Xu

A remarkable feature of human beings is their capacity for creative behaviour, referring to their ability to react to problems in ways that are novel, surprising, and useful. Transformational creativity is a form of creativity where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-26 Maarten Grachten , Carlos Eduardo Cancino Chacón

State-of-the-art visual generative AI tools hold immense potential to assist users in the early ideation stages of creative tasks -- offering the ability to generate (rather than search for) novel and unprecedented (instead of existing)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Evans Xu Han , Alice Qian Zhang , Haiyi Zhu , Hong Shen , Paul Pu Liang , Jane Hsieh

Understanding another person's creative output requires a shared language of association. However, when training vision-language models such as CLIP, we rely on web-scraped datasets containing short, predominantly literal, alt-text. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Ananya Sahu , Amith Ananthram , Kathleen McKeown

Standing at the intersection of science and art, artistic data visualization has gained popularity in recent years and emerged as a significant domain. Despite more than a decade since the field's conceptualization, a noticeable gap remains…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Xingyu Lan , Yifan Wang , Lingyu Peng , Xiaofan Ma

Creativity of generative AI models has been a subject of scientific debate in the last years, without a conclusive answer. In this paper, we study creativity from a practical perspective and introduce quantitative measures that help the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Aditi Ramaswamy , Hana Chockler , Melane Navaratnarajah

Artists occupy a paradoxical position in generative AI: their work trains the models reshaping creative labor. We tested whether their concerns achieve proportional representation in public discourse shaping AI governance. Analyzing public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ariya Mukherjee-Gandhi , Oliver Muellerklein

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

Automatic art analysis employs different image processing techniques to classify and categorize works of art. When working with artistic images, we need to take into account further considerations compared to classical image processing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Javier Fumanal-Idocin , Javier Andreu-Perez , Oscar Cordón , Hani Hagras , Humberto Bustince

Combinational creativity, a form of creativity involving the blending of familiar ideas, is pivotal in design innovation. While most research focuses on how combinational creativity in design is achieved through blending elements, this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Liuqing Chen , Shuhong Xiao , Yunnong Chen , Linyun Sun , Peter R. N. Childs , Ji Han

Creativity serves as a cornerstone for societal progress and innovation. With the rise of advanced generative AI models capable of tasks once reserved for human creativity, the study of AI's creative potential becomes imperative for its…

We present interactive painting processes in which a painter and various neural style transfer algorithms interact on a real canvas. Understanding what these algorithms' outputs achieve is then paramount to describe the creative agency in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-03-17 Thomas Kerdreux , Louis Thiry , Erwan Kerdreux

Visual metaphors are powerful rhetorical devices used to persuade or communicate creative ideas through images. Similar to linguistic metaphors, they convey meaning implicitly through symbolism and juxtaposition of the symbols. We propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Tuhin Chakrabarty , Arkadiy Saakyan , Olivia Winn , Artemis Panagopoulou , Yue Yang , Marianna Apidianaki , Smaranda Muresan

We investigate bias trends in text-to-image generative models over time, focusing on the increasing availability of models through open platforms like Hugging Face. While these platforms democratize AI, they also facilitate the spread of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

The increasing impact of black box models, and particularly of unsupervised ones, comes with an increasing interest in tools to understand and interpret them. In this paper, we consider in particular how to characterise visual groupings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Iro Laina , Ruth C. Fong , Andrea Vedaldi

We explore computational approaches for visual guidance to aid in creating aesthetically pleasing art and graphic design. Our work complements and builds on previous work that developed models for how humans look at images. Our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Qingyuan Zheng , Zhuoru Li , Adam Bargteil

The word creativity originally described a concept from human psychology, but in the realm of computational creativity (CC), it has become much more. The question of what creativity means when it is part of a computational system might be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Nadia M. Ady , Faun Rice

Recent generative AI advances present new possibilities for supporting visual art creation, but how such promise might assist novice artists during early-stage processes requires investigation. How novices adopt or resist these tools can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Cindy Peng , Alice Qian , Linghao Jin , Jieneng Chen , Evans Xu Han , Paul Pu Liang , Hong Shen , Haiyi Zhu , Jane Hsieh

Understanding character relationships is essential for interpreting complex narratives and conducting socially grounded AI research. However, manual annotation is time-consuming and low in coverage, while large language models (LLMs) often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Runcong Zhao , Qinglin Zhu , Hainiu Xu , Bin Liang , Lin Gui , Yulan He

The recent developments of artificial intelligence increase its capability for the creation of arts in both largely autonomous and collaborative contexts. In both contexts, Ai aims to imitate, combine, and extend existing artistic styles,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-29 André Holzapfel , Petra Jääskeläinen , Anna-Kaisa Kaila