Covering the News with (AI) Style
This work addresses the need for AI-assisted visual content creation in media and publishing, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing multi-modal methods.
The authors tackled the problem of generating visual content from textual or visual documents by introducing a multi-modal framework, which they demonstrated by creating art for The New York Times' special section on AI.
We introduce a multi-modal discriminative and generative frame-work capable of assisting humans in producing visual content re-lated to a given theme, starting from a collection of documents(textual, visual, or both). This framework can be used by edit or to generate images for articles, as well as books or music album covers. Motivated by a request from the The New York Times (NYT) seeking help to use AI to create art for their special section on Artificial Intelligence, we demonstrated the application of our system in producing such image.