Image search is an essential and user-friendly method to explore vast galleries of digital images. However, existing image search methods heavily rely on proximity measurements like tag matching or image similarity, requiring precise user inputs for satisfactory results. To meet the growing demand for a contemporary image search engine that enables accurate comprehension of users' search intentions, we introduce an innovative user intent expansion framework. Our framework leverages visual-language models to parse and compose multi-modal user inputs to provide more accurate and satisfying results. It comprises two-stage processes: 1) a parsing stage that incorporates a language parsing module with large language models to enhance the comprehension of textual inputs, along with a visual parsing module that integrates an interactive segmentation module to swiftly identify detailed visual elements within images; and 2) a logic composition stage that combines multiple user search intents into a unified logic expression for more sophisticated operations in complex searching scenarios. Moreover, the intent expansion framework enables users to perform flexible contextualized interactions with the search results to further specify or adjust their detailed search intents iteratively. We implemented the framework into an image search system for NFT (non-fungible token) search and conducted a user study to evaluate its usability and novel properties. The results indicate that the proposed framework significantly improves users' image search experience. Particularly the parsing and contextualized interactions prove useful in allowing users to express their search intents more accurately and engage in a more enjoyable iterative search experience.

Ai-Da the robot has admitted she was'nervous' about speaking at the House of Lords and named her favourite artist as Yoko Ono in an exclusive interview with MailOnline. Ai-Da made history on Tuesday by becoming the first robot to address the House of Lords – although she suffered a slight hiccup after'falling asleep' mid-speech. During the session, the bot had to be rebooted by her creator Aidan Meller, after a technical issue rendered her cross-eyed and zombie-like. Shortly after, MailOnline asked Ai-Da a couple of questions about the address. Wearing dungarees and an orange blouse, Ai-Da said the address to the House of Lords went well and that she feels'quite nervous when speaking in public' Ai-Da is an artificial intelligence robot built in 2019 that creates drawings, paintings and sculptures.

A British humanoid called Ai-Da has made history by becoming the first robot to speak at the House of Lords. Addressing members of the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee on Tuesday afternoon, the bot spoke about whether creativity is under attack from AI and technology. When asked: 'How do you produce art and how is this different to what human artists produce?', Ai-Da replied: 'I could use my paintings by cameras in my eyes, my AI algorithms and my robotic arm to paint on canvas, which result in visually appealing images. 'For my poetry using neutral networks, this involves analysing a large corpus of text to identify common content and poetic structures, and then using these structures/content to generate new poems. 'How this differs to humans is consciousness.

Recommendation systems have been widely used in various domains such as music, films, e-shopping, etc. After mostly avoiding digitization, the art world has recently reached a technological turning point due to the pandemic, making online sales grow significantly as well as providing quantitative online data about artists and artworks. In this work, we present a content-based recommendation system on contemporary art relying on images of artworks and contextual metadata of artists. We gathered and annotated artworks with advanced and art-specific information to create a completely unique database that was used to train our models. With this information, we built a proximity graph between artworks. Similarly, we used NLP techniques to characterize the practices of the artists and we extracted information from exhibitions and other event history to create a proximity graph between artists. The power of graph analysis enables us to provide an artwork recommendation system based on a combination of visual and contextual information from artworks and artists. After an assessment by a team of art specialists, we get an average final rating of 75% of meaningful artworks when compared to their professional evaluations.

It would be wrong to claim that I first met the German artist Hito Steyerl on such-and-such day, in such-and-such city, where the weather was bright or blustery, and that she arrived suitably dressed for this season or the next. It is more accurate to say that she simply appeared while I was waiting in the atrium of the Communist Party court, under a spectacular red banner from which the faces of Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin bore down on me. One minute I was alone, and the next she was there--all yellow and smooth, except for the thick black cubes of her hands and her large, impassive face. Four black cats trailed her, in place of her shadow. "I spawned a lot of them, so they have multiplied," she murmured.

The exploration of the narrative and creative potential of artificial intelligence is one of the threads that emerges most from the works on show. Could you tell us which works best express this topic and what were the criteria for selecting the winners? When you enter the Corner room of MAXXI, where the exhibition is currently taking place, you are immediately struck by a number of aspects, first and foremost the multiplicity of approaches, which are very different from each other, and then an apparent absence of technology itself. All this stems precisely from the fact that each of the works on display builds a narrative of its own which is the result of a different view of the subject and of the themes linked to the world of AI. It is no coincidence that the work of the first classified, the Entangled Others, invites us to imagine new forms of coexistence within coral reefs: the result that emerges from the lucid dream of a neural network, is surprising. Irene Fenara's work is based on a narrative borrowed from experience, the phenomenon of the extinction of tigers, which the artist reinterprets in a failed attempt to preserve a digital memory.

A new website can turn your selfies into Renaissance works of art by re-imagining them in classical portrait form. There's a number of styles included in the database, covering artists from Rembrandt to Titian to van Gogh which allows it to render your face in oil, watercolour or ink. Unlike similar apps like FaceApp, the algorithm here is not merely'painting over' your face in a new style, according to the Verge. Using Deep Learning, the researchers loaded paintings from the Early Renaissance to contemporary art to help train the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) models. MailOnline's Peter Lloyd had his image converted into a moustache-adorned Victorian MailOnline health editor Stephen Matthew (pictured) turned his Facebook profile picture of him sitting in a filed into a classical portrait with dense eyebrows.

Several contemporary artists tackling the social implications of technology have been banned by censors from China's upcoming Guangzhou Triennial. One of them was Heather Dewey-Hagborg, whose works often critique biotechnology, notably including portraits derived from the DNA of Chelsea Manning. She woke up last on December 8th to an email from one of the show's three curators, Angelique Spaninks, explaining that her piece T3511 was being pulled last-minute. The triennial, titled "As We May Think, Feedforward," explores the links between humanity and technology and opens on December 21st. Spaninks told Dewey-Hagborg that her work was censored by the government, and while she was given no official justification, speculated that authorities were sensitive to bioethics issues.

Greece is making a renewed move for the Parthenon Marbles. The Museum of Modern Art is offering buyouts. A board member for L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art is going to work for Donald "Build the Wall" Trump. Plus, a gun sculpture is censored at a Texas university, gender in museums, Moscow's terrible art, a history of female robots and the historic photography of L.A. forefather Charles Lummis. There's a ton to read in today's Roundup: Related: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's chief digital officer, Sree Sreenivasan, says he will not participate in all-male panels.