gh@utai.UUCP (Graeme Hirst) (10/18/84)
== University of Toronto, Department of Computer Science == Artificial Intelligence and Graphics seminar == Tuesday 23 October, 3pm, Sandford Fleming 1105 Automating the creation of explanatory pictures Steve Feiner Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI The APEX [Automated Pictorial EXplanations] project has as its long-term goal the real-time computer generation of effective pictorial and textual explanations. Our current research has concentrated on the creation of pictures that depict the perfor- mance of physical actions, such as turning or pushing, on ob- jects. The research combines techniques of artificial intelli- gence and computer graphics. We are constructing a test-bed system that generates pictures of actions performed by a problem solver. Our system supports rules for determining automatically the objects to be shown in a pic- ture, the style and level of detail with which they should be rendered, the method by which the action itself should be indi- cated, and the picture's viewing specifications. A picture crys- tallizes about a small set of objects inferred from the nature of the action being depicted. Additional objects and detail are ad- ded when it is determined that they help disambiguate an object from others with which it may be confused. -- \\\\ Graeme Hirst University of Toronto Computer Science Department //// utcsrgv!utai!gh / gh.toronto@csnet-relay / 416-978-8747