Presentation
Lines and Minds: Visual Abstraction in Art, Psychology, and Computer Graphics
DescriptionVisual abstraction --- from sketches and diagrams to icons and comics --- enables people to communicate, express, and create by distilling complex visual information into simplified forms that preserve essential meaning. These simplified forms support perception, reasoning, and communication in ways that detailed depiction often cannot. Visual abstraction has been studied across cognitive science, art theory, and computer graphics, offering complementary perspectives on how humans perceive, produce, and interpret such representations.
This workshop brings together these perspectives to examine abstraction as a cognitive mechanism, a communicative tool, and a computational challenge, exploring questions such as: Why and how do people abstract? What makes a simplification effective? How can machines learn to abstract in ways aligned with human perception? And as AI excels at generating realistic images, what role might abstraction play in how humans and AI create together?
This workshop brings together these perspectives to examine abstraction as a cognitive mechanism, a communicative tool, and a computational challenge, exploring questions such as: Why and how do people abstract? What makes a simplification effective? How can machines learn to abstract in ways aligned with human perception? And as AI excels at generating realistic images, what role might abstraction play in how humans and AI create together?
Organizers
Event Type
Technical Workshop
TimeSunday, 19 July 20262:00pm - 5:15pm PDT
LocationRoom 406 AB
Arts & Design
Research & Education
Art
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Computer Vision
Education
Generative AI
Image Processing
Industry Insight
Rendering
Scientific Visualization
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