Math and Computer Science
CANCELED: Job talk by Natalia Khuri, candidate for Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Location
F.W. Olin Building, Room 324Date & Time
5:00pm - 6:00pm CST February 12, 2019Contact
Dr. Barbara Anthony5:00pm - 6:00pm CST February 12, 2019
F.W. Olin Building, Room 324
Open gallery
Job talk by Natalia Khuri, candidate for Assistant Professor of Computer Science
“Creating Digital Collages Inspired by English Texts”
Abstract: Often, textual data is accompanied by images in an attempt to help the user better understand the content. Drawing inspiration from this, it would be interesting to transform any given text into a digital image collage, an artistic graphic object. To automate the process, we developed a software system that uses Natural Language Processing to summarize large paragraphs of text, retrieves images from databases, and arranges them with a Genetic Algorithm on a digital canvas. Given that certain images may be more important to the user, the software computes emphasis factors for scaling the images in the collage. I will describe several computational experiments for validating each module of our system and present user studies to examine their perception of the collages.
Abstract: Often, textual data is accompanied by images in an attempt to help the user better understand the content. Drawing inspiration from this, it would be interesting to transform any given text into a digital image collage, an artistic graphic object. To automate the process, we developed a software system that uses Natural Language Processing to summarize large paragraphs of text, retrieves images from databases, and arranges them with a Genetic Algorithm on a digital canvas. Given that certain images may be more important to the user, the software computes emphasis factors for scaling the images in the collage. I will describe several computational experiments for validating each module of our system and present user studies to examine their perception of the collages.