[General] Computational Aesthetics 2010: Call for Posters

Computational Aesthetics 2010 Call for Posters Computational Aesthetics bridges the analytic and synthetic by integrating aspects of computer science, philosophy, psychology, and the fine, applied & performing arts. It seeks to facilitate both the analysis and the augmentation of creative behaviours. CAe also investigates the creation of tools that can enhance the expressive power of the fine and applied arts and furthers our understanding of aesthetic evaluation, perception and meaning. The conference brings together individuals with technical experience of developing computer based tools to solve aesthetic problems and people with artistic/design backgrounds who use these new tools. Invited talks will be given by technical, theoretical and artistic/design figures. The talks will help participants better understand what aesthetics is, what computer technology is currently capable of and, equally, to fully appreciate what is involved in artistic design and creative process. Poster submissions are an opportunity to present and discuss work in progress without publication. Technical, artistic and posters that mix the two are all welcome. Suggested topics cover similar ground to the technical papers, but are not limited to it. Examples include a.. computational analysis and modelling of creative behaviour (AI, A-life); b.. artistic image transformation techniques (colours, edges, patterns, dithering); c.. image style and salience analysis (paintings, photographs, others); d.. visualization (perceptual or aesthetics based); e.. sketching, simplification techniques (artistic, cognitive); f.. composition, visual balance, layout; g.. non-photorealistic rendering; h.. empirically based metrics of aesthetical attributes; and i.. applied visual perception (colour appearance, spatial vision, and other aspects). j.. measuring and describing aesthetics and k.. computational tools for artists Submission Posters will be of up to size A0. Poster authors should submit an extended abstract or a description to accompany their work; no more than 2 sides of A4 in length. The style files for standard papers should be used. Accepted abstracts (descriptions) will be included as part of the electronic conference proceedings, but will not be included in in the paper proceedings so will not be formally published. The work should submitted directly to the posters chair: pmh(a)cs.bath.ac.uk, in PDF format. Important Dates Submission deadline: March 12, 2010 Acceptance notification: April 12, 2010