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Atoms of EVE′: A Bayesian basis for esthetic analysis of style in sketching

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2006

KEVIN BURNS
KEVIN BURNS
Affiliation:
MITRE Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
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Abstract

At its root level, style is actually an esthetic agreement between people. The question is, how can esthetic agreements be modeled and measured in artificial intelligence? This paper offers a formal theory called EVE′ and applies it to a novel test bed of dynamic drawings that combine features of music and sketching. The theory provides mathematical measures of expectations, violations, and explanations, which are argued to be the atomic components of the esthetic experience. The approach employs Bayesian methods to extend information measures proposed in other research. In particular, it is shown that information theory is useful at an entropic level to measure expectations (E) of signals and violations (V) of expectations, but that Bayesian theory is needed at a semantic level to measure explanations (E′) of meaning for the signals. The entropic and semantic measures are then combined in further measures of tension and pleasure at an esthetic level that is actually style.

Keywords

Bayesian TheoryDrawingFlowFunInformation TheoryMusic
Type
Research Article
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AI EDAM , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , August 2006 , pp. 185 - 199
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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