Expressive 2015 - The joint symposium on Computational Aesthetics and Sketch Based Interfaces and Modeling and Non-Photorealistic Animation and Rendering

Computational Aesthetics (CAe) 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 behaviors. 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 Computational Aesthetics 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. Refereed CAe papers and artworks aim to facilitate a dialog between scientists and engineers who are creating new tools, and also artists and designers who use them. Presentations will provide a snapshot of the latest technical breakthroughs and the most recent artistic or design achievements in applying computer-based techniques to solve aesthetic problems.
Technical submissions are invited across the broad range of areas covered by Computational Aesthetics. Specific technical areas include, but are not limited to:
computational analysis and modeling of creative behavior (AI, A-life)
artistic image transformation techniques (colors, edges, patterns, dithering)
image style and salience analysis (paintings, photographs, others)
visualization (perceptual or aesthetics based)
sketching, simplification techniques (artistic, cognitive)
composition, visual balance, layout
non-photorealistic and illustrative rendering addressing computational aesthetics
empirically based metrics of aesthetical attributes
applied visual perception (color appearance, spatial vision, and other aspects)
measuring and describing aesthetics
computational tools for artists
Successful submissions can, for example, describe novel technical approaches that address one or more of the areas mentioned above (or beyond). However, we are equally interested in papers that discuss the use of existing techniques but combine them in an interesting new way or apply them in a new context that addresses problems in computational aesthetics.