BIMAI is a multi-disciplinary laboratory that conducts research at the intersection between image synthesis, artificial intelligence and visual arts. BIMAI was founded in 2022 by Ruben Tous and is part of the CROMAI group at the Department of Computer Architechture of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

The article "Empowering Marginalized Narratives through Pixel Art. A Case Study of The Video Game of My Life and the Metzineres Association" by Maria Pagès, Nea Ehrlich, Ruben Tous and Lasse Loepfe will be presented at Ars Electronica 2026 in Linz, Austria.

Temporally-coherent Video Cartoonization for Animation Scenery Generation.

Automatic line art animation from video.

Automatic film footage cartoonization using 3D human pose estimation and generative models.