Towards a Visual Remote Associates Test and its Computational Solver

Abstract

The Remote Associates Test (RAT) is a test used for mea-suring creativity as relying on the power of making associations, and itnormally takes a linguistic form (i.e., given three words, a fourth wordassociated with all three is asked for). The aim of this paper is towardsgeneralizing this test to other domains, checking for its possible applica-tion in the visual domain (i.e., given three images, an object associatedto them is asked for). A pilot visual version of the Remote AssociatesTest (RAT-V) was created and given to human participants. A previoussolver of the compound linguistic Remote Associates Test (comRAT-C)was adapted to become a prototype which can solve the visual RemoteAssociates Test (comRAT-V).