Artificial Intelligence for Art Creation and Understanding

This book covers state-of-the-art AI technologies for art creation, understanding, and evaluation. Each chapter providing an entry point for readers, presenting SOTA AI technologies for art creation and understanding and covering the fascinating combination of AI with traditional Chinese art.

Luntian Mou received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China in 2012. He accomplished as a postdoctoral Researcher with the Institute of Digital Media, Peking University, China in 2014. From 2019 to 2020, he served as a visiting scholar at Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA. He is currently an associate professor with the Beijing Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing University of Technology, China. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, pattern recognition, affective computing, multimedia computing, and brain-like computing. He has published on renowned journals such as TAFFC, TMM, TOMM, and ESWA. He is the recipient of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Advancement Award, IEEE Outstanding Contribution to Standardization Award, and AVS Outstanding Contribution on 15th Anniversary Award. He serves as a guest editor for Machine Intelligence Research, and a reviewer for many important international journals and conferences such as TIP, TAFFC, TCSVT, TITS, AAAI, etc. He is a senior member of IEEE and CCF, and a member of ACM. He is the chair of the organizing committee of the 2023 CSIG Conference on Emotional Intelligence (CEI). He is the founding chair of IEEE Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Art Creation (AIART).