Cole, Adam and Grierson, Mick (2025) Attention of a Kiss: Exploring Attention Maps in Video Diffusion for XAIxArts. In: ACM Creativity and Cognition 2025, 23-25 June 2025, Online.
Type of Research: | Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item |
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Creators: | Cole, Adam and Grierson, Mick |
Description: | This paper presents an artistic and technical investigation into the attention mechanisms of video diffusion transformers. Inspired by early video artists who manipulated analog video signals to create new visual aesthetics, this study proposes a method for extracting and visualizing cross-attention maps in generative video models. Built on the open-source Wan model, our tool provides an interpretable window into the temporal and spatial behavior of attention in text-to-video generation. Through exploratory probes and an artistic case study, we examine the potential of attention maps as both analytical tools and raw artistic material. This work contributes to the growing field of Explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts), inviting artists to reclaim the inner workings of AI as a creative medium. |
Official Website: | https://xaixarts.github.io/2025 |
Additional Information (Publicly available): | 3rd international workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts at the ACM Creativity and Cognition Conference 2025 |
Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | video art, explainable AI, generative video, attention maps, video diffusion models |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Research Centres/Networks > Institute for Creative Computing |
Date: | 23 June 2025 |
Event Location: | Online |
Date Deposited: | 15 Sep 2025 14:46 |
Last Modified: | 17 Sep 2025 12:50 |
Item ID: | 24688 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24688 |
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