Serial Number: http://www.riss.kr/link?id=A107342694

Title: The birth of computational image - from apparatus to algorithm -

Author: Pyung-jong Park

Journal: AURA

Vol: (46)

Pages: 18-32

Date: 2021.

Register Information: KCI

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<Abstract>

This article deals with the changes triggered by artificial intelligence related to image production. The image originally started as a “manual image” drawn by human hands and then differentiated into a “technical image” produced by apparatus in the 19th century. Since then, with the development of image generation algorithms, the automaticity of image production has become more advanced. This generative model, represented by GAN, produces images only by 'calculation' based on probability and statistics. Currently, GAN is receiving the most attention in the field of computer vision, and it excels in various tasks such as creating high-resolution images, translating images, and compositing photos. GAN learns the original photos and creates an image similar to it, which goes beyond the limitations of apparatus such as human hands and cameras. This 'computational image' belongs to the category of 'technical image' in a broad sense, but differs from photography, the first technical image in that there is no indication object. In addition, the automaticity of the program, the nature of the apparatus, is accelerating the exclusion of humans from the image production process in an extreme form. As a result, humans cannot reflect their intentions in image production and are in a position to become a simple consumer of images.