[3T1-GS-6] Language media processing

[3T1-GS-6-05] Generation of Images Representing New Concepts by Association-based Concept Synthesis

Yoshiya Miyashita¹, 〇Takashi Tsunakawa¹ (1. Shizuoka University)

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Keywords:Computational Creativity, Concept Synthesis, Association, Image Generation

Creation of concepts that affect the our life is strongly interesting for organizations such as companies that require innovation. In psychology, generation of an emergent concept from the combination of existing concepts is called conceptual blending, which is often treated as a task of interpreting pairs of nouns in language. On the other hand, since visual information facilitates the interpretation of objects, the generation of visual representations of unknown concepts is an important issue. In this study, we focus on associations, which are considered to be important in creative thinking, and propose a method to realize conceptual blending by incorporating moderate association into the process of combining concepts, and generate images of the concepts from the linguistic interpretation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is partially confirmed by the experiment with human evaluation.