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Workshops on Applications of Evolutionary Computation

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On the Development of Critics in Evolutionary Computation Artists

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One of the problems in the use of evolutionary computer systems in artistic tasks is the lack of artificial models of human critics. In this paper, based on the state of the art and on our previous related work, we propose a general architecture for an artificial art critic, and a strategy for the validation of this type of system. The architecture includes two modules: the analyser, which does a pre-processing of the artwork, extracting several measurements and characteristics; and the evaluator, which, based on the output of the analyser, classifies the artwork according to a certain criteria. The validation procedure consists of several stages, ranging from author and style discrimination to the integration of critic in a dynamic environment together with humans.

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  1. Creative Computer Line - RNASA Lab - Fac. of Computer Science, University of Coruña, Spain

    Juan Romero & Antonio Santos

  2. Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Quinta da Nora, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Penousal Machado

  3. CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems, University of Coimbra, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030, Coimbra, Portugal

    Amilcar Cardoso

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  1. Dept. of Computer Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/a, 43100, Parma, Italy

    Stefano Cagnoni

  2. Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK

    Colin G. Johnson

  3. Dept. of Information and Communications Technologies Faculty of Computer Science, University of A Coruña, A Coruña, CP 15071, Spain

    Juan J. Romero Cardalda

  4. Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science, Free University of Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Elena Marchiori

  5. Schol of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, PO Box 225, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AY, UK

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  8. Parallel Computing and Complex Systems Group, University of Leipzig, Augustusplatz 10/11, 04109, Leipzig, Germany

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  9. Algorithms and Data Structures Group Institute of Computer Graphics, Vienna University of Technology, Favoritenstrasse 9-11/186, 1040, Vienna, Austria

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Romero, J., Machado, P., Santos, A., Cardoso, A. (2003). On the Development of Critics in Evolutionary Computation Artists. In: Cagnoni, S., et al. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. EvoWorkshops 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2611. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36605-9_51

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