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Less Is More: Balancing Positive and Negative Space in Visual Concept Blending

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 31, 2026 · UTC

Graphic designers often blend visual concepts to communicate multiple ideas within a single image, leveraging positive and negative space to create balance, emphasis, and aesthetic appeal. While computational methods have begun to support automatic concept blending, they largely overlook the role of spatial composition in the design. To address this gap, we present an automatic pipeline that explicitly applies positive and negative space throughout the blending process. Our approach first identifies plausible regions for concept integration by combining semantic reasoning from vision-language

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