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Modelling Human Preference in Evolutionary Art

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Applications of Evolutionary Computation (EvoApplications 2011)

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Creative activities including arts are characteristic to humankind. Our understanding of creativity is limited, yet there is substantial research trying to mimic human creativity in artificial systems and in particular to produce systems that automatically evolve art appreciated by humans. We propose here to model human visual preference by a set of aesthetic measures identified through observation of human selection of images and then use these for automatic evolution of aesthetic images.

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  1. Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, UK

    Anikó Ekárt & Stayko Chalakov

  2. IIT Ropar, India

    Divya Sharma

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Strathclyde, 16 Richmond Street, G1 1XQ, Glasgow, UK

    Cecilia Di Chio

  2. School of Business, University College Dublin, 4, Belfield, Dublin, UK

    Anthony Brabazon

  3. Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull’Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA), Galleria 2, 6928, Manno-Lugano, Switzerland

    Gianni A. Di Caro

  4. Institute of Computer Science, University of Bremen, 28359, Bremen, Germany

    Rolf Drechsler

  5. Next Generation Intelligent Networks Research Center (nexGIN RC), National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences (FAST-NU), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muddassar Farooq

  6. Department of Information Systems, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099, Mainz, Germany

    Jörn Grahl

  7. Mathematics and Computer Science Depatment, University of Richmond, 23173, Richmond, VA, USA

    Gary Greenfield

  8. ICD - OSI, University of Technology of Troyes, 12, Rue Marie Curie, BP 2060, 10010, Troyes, France

    Christian Prins

  9. Facultad de Informatica, Universidade de A Coruña, 15071, Coruña, CP, Spain

    Juan Romero

  10. Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

    Giovanni Squillero

  11. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni (ICAR), Via P. Castellino 111, 80131, Naples, Italy

    Ernesto Tarantino

  12. Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Via Bramante 65, 26013, Crema (CR), Italy

    Andrea G. B. Tettamanzi

  13. School of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University, 10 Clinton Road, EH10 5DT, Edinburgh, UK

    Neil Urquhart

  14. Computer Engineering Department, Istanbul Technical University, Room Nr. 3302, Maslak, 34469, Istanbul, Turkey

    A. Şima Uyar

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Ekárt, A., Sharma, D., Chalakov, S. (2011). Modelling Human Preference in Evolutionary Art. In: Di Chio, C., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computation. EvoApplications 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6625. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20520-0_31

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