arXiv:2607. 10165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion-aware artistic image generation requires an image to match the input prompt, follow the specified artistic style, and convey the target emotion.
The paper "Forging Emotions" investigates how Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can be used to generate images that convey or trigger specific emotions. It highlights that current datasets for high‑level concepts like emotions are inadequate and suggests incorporating psychological emotional networks into dataset construction. The study also finds that simple color cues are insufficient for affect generation, advocating for deeper analysis of GAN structure and composition to create genuinely emotive imagery.
AffectDelta is a new image editing framework that moves beyond single emotion labels by modeling edits as transitions between eight‑dimensional emotion distributions. It uses a frozen Emotion Distribution Predictor to estimate the source state and a signed difference vector to encode the desired change, which is then translated into context‑dependent semantic and appearance modifications via a transition encoder and a diffusion backbone. The authors introduce AffectPair‑249K, a dataset of 248,841 source‑target pairs covering both cross‑category and within‑category transitions, and show that AffectDelta outperforms six baselines in affective alignment and content preservation.
arXiv:2606. 13247v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved impressive results in synthesizing high-quality images from natural language prompts.
Despite advances in photorealism, semantic fidelity, and aesthetics, text-to-image generation and image editing remain understudied in a human-centered dimension: whether their outputs feel psychologi...
arXiv:2606. 05816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: T2I models cannot effectively capture sentiment from various types of text, including diaries, as they primarily focus on visual object-related patterns rather than contextual emotional understanding.
AffectDelta is a new image editing framework that moves beyond single emotion labels by modeling edits as transitions between eight‑dimensional emotion distributions. It uses a frozen Emotion Distribution Predictor to estimate the source image’s affective state and encodes the signed difference to guide a diffusion backbone that applies context‑dependent semantic and appearance changes. The authors created a large AffectPair‑249K dataset of source‑target pairs and show that AffectDelta outperforms six baselines in both affective alignment and content preservation, with ablation studies supporting their design choices.
arXiv:2610.27516v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite advances in photorealism, semantic fidelity, and aesthetics, text-to-image generation and image editing remain understudied in a human-center...
arXiv:2608.22329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Emotion-aware artistic image generation requires a model to satisfy semantic content, artistic style, and target emotion simultaneously. The key chal...
arXiv:2609.12830v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continuous emotion control in text-to-image generation requires a model to improve affective alignment without changing the objects, layout, or scene d...
Affective Image Content Analysis (AICA) aims to recognize and understand emotions elicited by visual content, representing an indispensable step toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). However, despite the rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), systematic evaluation of their visual emotional intelligence remains largely absent from recent model releases.
The paper introduces Visual‑Semantic Affect Graphs (VSAG), a graph‑based framework that models artworks using interpretable feature nodes such as color, brushstroke, composition, and visual entities. VSAG learns feature‑emotion associations and optionally incorporates a hierarchical valence‑arousal module to predict dominant emotions. Experiments on EmoArt‑5k show that VSAG, especially its valence‑arousal variant, outperforms direct vision‑language model inference and improves accuracy, macro‑F1, and weighted‑F1 scores, indicating that explicit visual‑semantic structure enhances both prediction and interpretation of artwork emotions.