The Exploration and Evaluation of Generating Affective 360° Panoramic VR Environments Through Neural Style Transfer

Yanheng Li; Long Bai; Yaxuan Mao; Xuening Peng; Zehao Zhang; Xin Tong; Ray LC

doi:10.1109/VRW58643.2023.00222

The Exploration and Evaluation of Generating Affective 360° Panoramic VR Environments Through Neural Style Transfer

Yanheng Li
, Long Bai
, Yaxuan Mao
, Xuening Peng
, Zehao Zhang
, Xin Tong
, Ray LC^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Creative Media

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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Affective virtual reality (VR) environments with varying visual style can impact users' valence and arousal responses. We applied Neural Style Transfer (NST) to generate 360º VR environments that elicited users' varied valence and arousal responses. From a user study with 30 participants, findings suggested that generative VR environments changed participants' arousal responses but not their valence levels. The generated visual features, e.g., textures and colors, also altered participants' affective perceptions. Our work contributes novel in-sights about how users respond to generative VR environments and provided a strategy for creating affective VR environments without altering content. ©2023 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops VRW 2023
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	759-760
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	979-8-3503-4839-2
ISBN (Print)	979-8-3503-4840-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW58643.2023.00222
Publication status	Published - 2023
Event	30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2023) - Pudong Shangri-La Hotel, Shanghai, China Duration: 25 Mar 2023 → 29 Mar 2023 http://ieeevr.org/2023/

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Conference	30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2023)
Place	China
City	Shanghai
Period	25/03/23 → 29/03/23
Internet address	http://ieeevr.org/2023/

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Neural style transfer
Virtual Reality
Affective experience
360 image

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Li, Y, Bai, L, Mao, Y, Peng, X, Zhang, Z, Tong, X & LC, R 2023, The Exploration and Evaluation of Generating Affective 360° Panoramic VR Environments Through Neural Style Transfer. in Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops VRW 2023. IEEE, pp. 759-760, 30th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR 2023), Shanghai, China, 25/03/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/VRW58643.2023.00222

The Exploration and Evaluation of Generating Affective 360° Panoramic VR Environments Through Neural Style Transfer. / Li, Yanheng; Bai, Long; Mao, Yaxuan et al.
Proceedings - 2023 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops VRW 2023. IEEE, 2023. p. 759-760.

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