5 papers
Before the Shutter: Aesthetic and Actionable Portrait Photography Planning in 3D Scenes
Ruixiang Jiang, Chang Wen Chen
Portrait photography is largely decided before the shutter opens: the subject's pose, the camera configuration, and the lighting devices must be coordinated within the surrounding…
On Semiotic-Grounded Interpretive Evaluation of Generative Art
Ruixiang Jiang, Changwen Chen
Interpretation is essential to deciphering the language of art: audiences communicate with artists by recovering meaning from visual artifacts. However, current Generative Art (Gen…
MoPE: Mixture of Prompt Experts for Parameter-Efficient and Scalable Multimodal Fusion
Ruixiang Jiang, Lingbo Liu, Changwen Chen
Despite the demonstrated parameter efficiency of prompt-based fusion, its limited adaptivity and expressiveness hinder its effectiveness for multimodal applications at scale. In th…
Multimodal LLMs Can Reason about Aesthetics in Zero-Shot
Ruixiang Jiang, Changwen Chen
The rapid technical progress of generative art (GenArt) has democratized the creation of visually appealing imagery. However, achieving genuine artistic impact - the kind that reso…
DiffArtist: Towards Structure and Appearance Controllable Image Stylization
Ruixiang Jiang, Changwen Chen
Artistic styles are defined by both their structural and appearance elements. Existing neural stylization techniques primarily focus on transferring appearance-level features such…