Visual generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) [1] and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) [2], have achieve remarkable results in generating visual images [3, 4, 5, 6]. While most existing work [3, 4] focus on photorealistic images, the problem of generating artistic images is relatively underinvestigated. Different from photorealistic images, artistic images exhibit larg...

Creativity is the ability to produce original and valuable ideas or behaviors. In real life, artistic and scientific creativity promoted the development of human civilization; however, to date, no studies have systematically investigated differences in the brain structures responsible for artistic and scientific creativity in a large sample. Using voxel-based morphometry (VBM), this study ident...

A sample of healthy18 undergraduate college women (9 left-handers and 9 right-handers) without any learning disabilities enrolled at a regional southwestern university in the United States signed an informed consent form, and were administered a general information questionnaire and the Artistic Abilities subscale of “Competencies” subsection of the Holland’s Self-Directed Search, Form R. They ...

P systems with symport/antiport rules of a minimal size (only one object passes in any direction in a communication step) were recently proven to be computationally universal. The proof from [2] uses systems with nine membranes. In this paper we improve this results, by showing that six membranes suffice. The optimality of this result remains open (we believe that the number of membranes can be...

Steve Benford, Andy Crabtree, Martin Flintham, Duncan Rowland The Mixed Reality Laboratory, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham UK. {sdb, axc, mdf, dar}@cs.nott.ac.uk Bill Gaver Interaction Design Research Studio, The Royal College of Art, UK [email protected] Matt Adams, Ju RowFarr, Nick Tandavanitj Blast Theory Unit 43a Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London, UK. {matt, ju, nick}@blastth...

Relighting a portrait in a single image is still a challenging problem, particularly when only a single artistic reference photograph or painting is provided. In this paper, we propose an artistic illumination transfer system for portraits based on a database of portrait images (photographs and paintings) associated with hand-drawn illumination templates (276) by artists. Users can select a ref...