Transformation of Landscape into Moving Art Using AI for Future Car

[ADADA+CUMULUS 2020 (International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2020)] Fully Virtual Conference, 2020/12/14-16.When autonomous driving comes to reality in near future, a space in a car would become a special space where people can enjoy various kinds of entertainment. This paper proposes one such entertainment in which the outside landscape is to be changed into moving art. Firstly, the outside landscape is captured by a camera set near to a driver’s head. Then each frame of the captured landscape video is transformed into an artistic image by utilizing the image transformation capability of Cycle GAN, one of the recent AI technologies. And the converted video is projected on the windshield. Landscape seen from side windows can be changed into artistic moving images in the same way. In this way, passengers as well as a driver of a future car can enjoy artistic moving images that are converted from outside landscape into art video with any art style

Developing Japanese Ikebana as a Digital Painting Tool via AI

[ICEC 2020]19th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2020, Xi'an, China, November 10–13, 2020, ProceedingsPart of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 12523)In this research, we have carried out various experiments to perform mutual transformation between a domain of Ikebana (Japanese traditional flower arrangement) photos and other domains of images (landscapes, animals, portraits) to create new artworks via CycleGAN, a variation of GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) - new AI technology that can perform deep learning with less training data. With the capability of achieving transformation between two image sets using CycleGAN, we obtained several interesting results in which Ikebana plays the role of a digital painting tool due to the flexibility and minimality of the Japanese culture form. Our experiments show that Ikebana can be developed as a painting tool in digital art with the help of CycleGAN and opens a new way to create digital artworks of high-abstracted level by applying AI techniques to elements from traditional culture

Psychological Evaluation for Images/Videos Displayed using Large LED Display and Projector

[ICEC 2020]19th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2020, Xi'an, China, November 10–13, 2020, ProceedingsPart of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 12523)Display of images/videos on a big screen/display, such as digital signage, projection mapping, etc., is becoming popular in the area of entertainment, advertisement, and so on. A comparison of the usage of an LED display and a projector is important for such applications. We have prepared an experimental environment where two types of projection/display using a 200 inch LED display and a 200-inch screen and a projector. Also, two brightness conditions, light-on and light-off, and two types of contents, art content and text content were used for the experiment. Under a total of eight types of environments, we carried out a psychological experiment using 24 participants. Each subject filled a questionnaire based on a five-point semantic differential scale. Based on the analysis of the result, it was revealed that the combination of art content, light-off, and LED display gives far better results than other combinations

Sound of Ikebana: Creation of Media Art Based on Fluid Dynamics

We have been working on the creation of media art, utilizing technologies. As fluids create beautiful forms under various conditions, we have been trying to utilize fluid dynamics as a basis for creating media art. However, most of the visualization results of the fluid dynamics show only stable fluid behaviors and lack of unstable or, in other words, unpredictable behaviors that would be significant in the creation of art. To create various unstable or unpredictable fluid behaviors, we have developed and introduced a new method called "Sound Vibration Form (SVF)" to control fluid behaviors and created amedia art called "Sound of Ikebana." Interestingly, people find and feel Japanese beauty in media art, although itis created based on a natural phenomenon. This paper proposes the basic concept of media art based on fluid dynamics, describes details of the SVF to create unpredictable fluid dynamics-based phenomena, and a new media art called "Sound of Ikebana" created utilizing SVF. Also, we will discuss the relationship between Japanese beauty and physical phenomena represented by fluid dynamics

Evaluation of Art Style Using AI and Psychological Experiments

[ADADA+CUMULUS 2020 (International Conference for Asia Digital Art and Design 2020)] Fully Virtual Conference, 2020/12/14-16.GANs (Generative adversarial networks) is a new AI technology that has the capability of achieving transformation between two image sets. Using GANs we have carried out a comparison among several art sets with different art styles. We have prepared four image sets; a flower image set with Impressionism art style, one with the Western abstract art style, one with Chinese figurative art style, and one with the art style of Naoko Tosa, one of the authors. Using these four sets we have carried out a psychological experiment to evaluate the difference between these four sets. We have found that abstract drawings and figurative drawings are judged to be different, figurative drawings in West and East were judged to be similar, and Naoko Tosa’s artworks are similar to the Western abstract artworks

An Approach To Investigate Abstraction in Art Using AI and Psychological Experiment

[2022 International Conference for ADADA + CUMULUS] 26 - 27 November 2022, OnlineThe history of paintings began with drawing real objects such as landscapes. However, the relationship between artworks and real objects became unclear as time passed. As it is sometimes difficult for ordinary people to understand artworks, especially in the case of abstract paintings, it would be preferable to investigate the relationship between a specific artwork or art style and real objects. On the other hand, AI has made rapid progress in recent years, and new technologies, such as converting photographs into art-like images, called "style transfer, " have emerged. This paper challenges the approach of investigating abstraction in art by studying the relationship between artworks and real objects. We used the methodology of combining the AI style transfer function and psychological experiment

Reflected Light vs. Transmitted Light: Do They Give Different Impressions to Users?

[The 29th International Display Workshops(IDW’22)]Organizing: The Society for Information Display(SID), Date; 14-16 December 2022, Location: Fukuoka International Congress Center[第29回ディスプレイ国際ワークショップ(IDW’22)]主催: 映像情報メディア学会(ITE), 開催日: 2022年12月14日-16日, 会場: 福岡国際会議場The difference in information display between using a projector (reflected light) and a display (transmitted light) is an essential issue. Marshal McLuhan proposed in his book "Laws of Media" the well-known hypothesis that "reflected light makes people analytical and transmitted light makes them emotional." In this study, we matched the display conditions of the projector and display as much as possible. Then we presented the subjects with emotional content (landscape video) and analytical content (threedigit multiplication) and asked them to evaluate their experiences. As a result, we found no statistical difference between the projector and the display evaluations

Psychological Evaluation of Artistic Lighting Using A Large Number of Subjects

[2022 International Conference for ADADA + CUMULUS] 26 - 27 November 2022, OnlineWhether the results of psychological experiments targeting a small number of people can be expanded when targeting a large number of people is an important issue. We are researching Kansei (sensitivity) lighting, which combines glass art and lighting, as joint research between a university and a company. About 1, 800 visitors evaluated the developed Kansei lighting at an exhibition for the public. We used the same evaluation items used in the evaluation experiments already conducted by us using a small number of people so that the results of both experiments can be compared. In this paper, we report the results of evaluation experiments using a large number of people

The Effect of Art Content on Mental State Improvement: Insights for Disaster Situations

[IDRiM2022 Conference: The 12th International Conference of the International Society for the INTEGRATED DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT] Online conference, 21-23 September 202