Adapting models of visual aesthetics for personalized content creation

IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 213-228

  Liapis, Antonios ^a   Yannakakis, Georgios N ^a   Togelius, Julian ^a  

^a IT UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Computational aesthetics; constrained optimization; experience driven procedural content generation (EDPCG); interactive evolution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL AESTHETICS; COMPUTATIONAL MODEL; EVALUATION FUNCTION; EXPERIENCE-DRIVEN PROCEDURAL CONTENT GENERATION (EDPCG); FITNESS FUNCTIONS; INITIAL POPULATION; INTERACTIVE EVOLUTION; NEUROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH; OFFLINE; PERSONALIZED CONTENT; SEARCH-BASED; UNIVERSAL PROPERTIES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PROPERTIES;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

FUNCTION EVALUATION;

EID: 84866478526     PISSN: 1943068X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2012.2192438     Document Type: Article

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