Designers often express and explore visual ideas through mood boards, which are collages composed of images, text, and object samples. Finding images that reflect abstract ideas is challenging and designers often spend significant time searching for the ‘right’ image. Unfortunately, current digital tools offer little support for searching beyond text queries and reflecting upon visual material.

Semantic collage is a creativity support tool that supports designers' ideation and sense-making processes by exploiting state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms to enrich images with semantic labels.