NIPS 2017 Art Gallery
See link for accepted art submissions, music submissions, and demos for papers!
Introduction
In the last year, generative machine learning and machine creativity have gotten a lot of attention in the non-research world. At the same time there have been significant advances in generative models for media creation and for design. This one-day workshop explores several issues in the domain of generative models for creativity and design. We will look at algorithms for generation and creation of new media and new designs, engaging researchers building the next generation of generative models (GANs, RL, etc) and also from a more information-theoretic view of creativity (compression, entropy, etc). We will investigate the social and cultural impact of these new models, engaging researchers from HCI/UX communities. We’ll also hear from some of the artists and musicians who are adopting machine learning approaches like deep learning and reinforcement learning as part of their artistic process. We’ll leave ample time for discussing both the important technical challenges of generative models for creativity and design, as well as the philosophical and cultural issues that surround this area of research.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and creative practitioners interested in advancing art and music generation to present new work, foster collaborations and build networks.
Keynote Speakers
Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director & Professor at The Swiss AI Lab IDSIA
Ian Goodfellow, Staff Research Scientist, Google Brain
Rebecca Fiebrink, Senior Lecturer, Goldsmiths University of London
Ahmed Elgammal, Director of the Art & Artificial Intelligence Lab, Rutgers University
Emily Denton, PhD student, Courant Institute at New York University
Important Dates
3 November 2017: Submission date for papers and art
10 November 2017: Acceptance notification for papers and art submissions
28 November 2017: Deadline for final copy of accepted papers
4–9 December 2017: NIPS Conference
8 December 2017: Workshop
How to Participate
We invite participation in the form of papers and/or artwork.
To Submit a Paper
We invite participants to submit 2-page papers in the NIPS camera-ready format (with author names visible), to be submitted to: nips2017creativity@gmail.com
In the subject line of your email, please put:
NIPS Workshop: [Paper title]
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
- Presentation of new machine learning techniques for generating art, music, or other creative outputs using, for instance, reinforcement learning, generative adversarial networks, novelty search and evaluation, etc
- Quantitative or qualitative evaluation of machine learning techniques for creative work and design
- Tools or techniques to improve usability or usefulness of machine learning for creative practitioners
- Descriptions, reflections, or case studies on the use of machine learning in the creation of a new art or design work
- Information-theoretic views of creativity
- Aesthetic, philosophical, social, and cultural considerations surrounding the use of machine learning in creative practice
On the submission page, you may also indicate whether you would like to present a demo of your work during the workshop (if applicable).
Papers will be reviewed by committee members, and accepted authors will present at the workshop in the form of a short talk, panel, and/or demo. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Accepted papers will appear on the workshop website.
References and any supplementary materials provided do not count as part of the 2-page limit. However, it will be the reviewers’ discretion to read the supplementary materials.
To Submit Artwork
We welcome submission of artwork that has been created using machine learning (autonomously or with humans). We invite art in any medium, including but not limited to sound and music, image, video, dance, text, physical objects, food, etc… We will be able to accommodate work submitted in one of the following formats:
- Video
- Audio (maximum 2 channel)
- Still image
- Website
- Other types of submissions (e.g., physical artefacts, performances, text, …) should be documented using one or more of the above formats. For instance, you might submit a video of a machine-learning-generated dance piece or a website documenting a text generation piece.
On this submission page, you will also be asked for a short text description of your work and a description of how machine learning was used in its creation.
Art submissions will be reviewed by committee members.
We will host an online gallery of accepted art submissions on the workshop website. While we will do our best to show a number of art pieces at the workshop itself, we will most likely not have access to adequate equipment and space to support a substantial exhibit. We may invite creators of accepted artwork to participate in the form of a short talk, panel, and/or demo.
Artists submitting work are encouraged though not required to attend in person.
Contact
If you have any questions, please contact us at nips2017creativity@gmail.com
Workshop website: https://nips2017creativity.github.io
Schedule
Time | Event |
---|---|
8:30 AM | Welcome and Introduction |
8:45 AM | Invited Talk Jürgen Schmidhuber |
9:15 AM | Invited Talk Emily Denton |
9:45 AM | Invited Talk Rebecca Fiebrink |
10:15 AM | GANosaic - Mosaic Creation with Generative Texture Manifolds Nikolay Jetchev, Urs Bergmann, Calvin Seward |
10:20 AM | TopoSketch: Drawing in Latent Space Ian Loh, Tom White |
10:25 AM | Input parameterization for DeepDream Alexander Mordvintsev, Chris Olah |
10:30 AM | Art / Coffee Break |
11:00 AM | Invited Talk Ian Goodfellow |
11:30 AM | Improvised Comedy as a Turing Test Kory Mathewson, Piotr Mirowski |
12:00 PM | Lunch |
1:00 PM | Invited Talk Ahmed Elgammal |
1:30 PM | Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders for Music Adam Roberts, Jesse Engel |
2:00 PM | Lexical preferences in an automated story writing system Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon |
2:30 PM | ObamaNet: Photo-realistic lip-sync from text Rithesh Kumar, Jose Sotelo, Kundan Kumar, Alexandre de Brébisson |
3:00 PM | Art / Coffee Break |
3:30 PM | Towards the High-quality Anime Characters Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks Yanghua Jin, Jiakai Zhang, Minjun Li, Yingtao Tian, Huachun Zhu |
3:35 PM | Crowd Sourcing Clothes Design Directed by Adversarial Neural Networks Hiroyuki Osone, Natsumi Kato, Daitetsu Sato, Naoya Muramatsu, Yoichi Ochiai |
3:40 PM | Paper Cubes: Evolving 3D characters in Augmented Reality using Recurrent Neural Networks Anna Fuste, Judith Amores |
3:45 PM | Open Discussion |
4:15 PM | Poster Session |
5:00 PM | End of Workshop |
Accepted Papers
- GANosaic - Mosaic Creation with Generative Texture Manifolds
- Nikolay Jetchev, Urs Bergmann, Calvin Seward
- TopoSketch: Drawing in Latent Space
- Ian Loh, Tom White
- Input parameterization for DeepDream
- Alexander Mordvintsev, Chris Olah
- Improvised Comedy as a Turing Test
- Kory Mathewson, Piotr Mirowski
- Hierarchical Variational Autoencoders for Music
- Adam Roberts, Jesse Engel
- Lexical Preferences in an Automated Story Writing System
- Melissa Roemmele, Andrew S. Gordon
- ObamaNet: Photo-realistic Lip-sync from Text
- Rithesh Kumar, Jose Sotelo, Kundan Kumar, Alexandre de Brébisson, Yoshua Bengio
- Towards the High-quality Anime Characters Generation with Generative Adversarial Networks
- Yanghua Jin, Jiakai Zhang, Minjun Li, Yingtao Tian, Huachun Zhu
- Crowd Sourcing Clothes Design Directed by Adversarial Neural Networks
- Hiroyuki Osone, Natsumi Kato, Daitetsu Sato, Naoya Muramatsu, Yoichi Ochiai
- Paper Cubes: Evolving 3D characters in Augmented Reality using Recurrent Neural Networks
- Anna Fuste, Judith Amores
- AI for Fragrance Design
- Richard Goodwin, Joana Maria, Payel Das, Raya Horesh, Richard Segal, Jing Fu, Christian Harris
- ASCII Art Synthesis with Convolutional Networks
- Osamu Akiyama
- Combinatorial Meta Search
- Matthew Guzdial, Mark O. Riedl
- Consistent Comic Colorization with Pixel-wise Background Classification
- Sungmin Kang, Jaegul Choo, Jaehyuk Chang
- Compositional Pattern Producing GAN
- Luke Metz, Ishaan Gulrajani
- Deep Interactive Evolutionary Computation
- Philip Bontrager, Wending Lin, Sebastian Risi, Julian Togelius
- Deep Learning for Identifying Potential Conceptual Shifts for Co-creative Drawing
- Pegah Karimi, Nicholas Davis, Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher
- Disentangled Representations of Style and Content for Visual Art with Generative Adversarial Networks
- Chris Donahue, Julian McAuley
- Repeating and Mistranslating: The Associations of GANs in an Art Context
- Anna Ridler
- Generating Black Metal and Math Rock: Beyond Bach, Beethoven, and Beatles
- Zack Zukowski, CJ Carr
- Generative Embedded Mapping Systems for Design
- Tom White, Phoebe Zeller, and Hannah Dockerty
- Imaginary Soundscape: Cross-Modal Approach to Generate Pseudo Sound Environments
- Yuma Kajihara, Shoya Dozono, Nao Tokui
- Improvisational Storytelling Agents
- Lara J. Martin, Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Xinyu Wang, Shruti Singh, Brent Harrison, Murtaza Dhuliawala, Pradyumna Tambwekar, Animesh Mehta, Richa Arora, Nathan Dass, Chris Purdy, Mark O. Riedl
- Learning to Create Piano Performances
- Sageev Oore, Ian Simon
- Neural Style Transfer for Audio Spectrograms
- Prateek Verma, Julius O. Smith
- Neural Translation of Musical Style
- Iman Malik, Carl Henrik Ek
- Sequential Line Search for Generative Adversarial Networks
- Masahiro Kazama, Viviane Takahashi
- SocialML: Machine Learning for Social Media Video Creators
- Tomasz Trzcinski, Adam Bielski, Pawel Cyrta, Matthew Zak
- SOMNIA: Self-Organizing Maps as Neural Interactive Art
- Byron V. Galbraith
- The Emotional GAN: Priming Adversarial Generation of Art with Emotion
- David Alvarez-Melis, Judith Amores
- Time Domain Neural Audio Style Transfer
- Parag K. Mital
- Algorithmic Composition of Polyphonic Music with the WaveCRF
- Umut Güçlü, Yagmur Güçlütürk, Luca Ambrogioni, Eric Maris, Rob van Lier, Marcel van Gerven
Organisers
Douglas Eck, Google Brain
David Ha, Google Brain
S. M. Ali Eslami, DeepMind
Sander Dieleman, DeepMind
Rebecca Fiebrink, Goldsmiths University of London
Luba Elliott, AI Curator