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The Invariant Ground Truth of Affect
Konstantinos Makantasis, Kosmas Pinitas, Antonios Liapis +1
Affective computing strives to unveil the unknown relationship between affect elicitation, manifestation of affect and affect annotations. The ground truth of affect, however, is p…
Open-Ended Evolution for Minecraft Building Generation
Matthew Barthet, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis
This paper proposes a procedural content generator which evolves Minecraft buildings according to an open-ended and intrinsic definition of novelty. To realize this goal we evaluat…
Seeding Diversity into AI Art
Marvin Zammit, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis
This paper argues that generative art driven by conformance to a visual and/or semantic corpus lacks the necessary criteria to be considered creative. Among several issues identifi…
RankNEAT: Outperforming Stochastic Gradient Search in Preference Learning Tasks
Kosmas Pinitas, Konstantinos Makantasis, Antonios Liapis +1
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) is a premium optimization method for training neural networks, especially for learning objectively defined labels such as image objects and events…
Towards General Models of Player Experience: A Study Within Genres
David Melhart, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis
To which degree can abstract gameplay metrics capture the player experience in a general fashion within a game genre? In this comprehensive study we address this question across th…
AffectGAN: Affect-Based Generative Art Driven by Semantics
Theodoros Galanos, Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis
This paper introduces a novel method for generating artistic images that express particular affective states. Leveraging state-of-the-art deep learning methods for visual generatio…