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Jan. 5th, 2007 08:30 amNews story gakked from my company's private website, though probably available elsewhere:
While artists throughout the ages have claimed to inspire viewer’s emotions with their artwork, a new electronic artwork program is turning that notion on its ear.
Images gathered through a webcam can now change a piece of electronic artwork immediately in response to the viewer’s emotions. The software recognizes eight facial features that characterize the viewer’s emotional state, and then it adapts the colors and brushstrokes to match the mood of the viewer.
This means that if the viewer appears angry, the artwork that person will see will be constructed of darker colors and more violent brush strokes. If the viewer appears to be happy, that person will see more vibrant colors that have a more subtle application.
“[The program] does all of this in real time,” says John Collomosse of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath in England, “meaning that as the viewer’s emotions change the artwork responds accordingly. This results in a digital canvas that smoothly varies its colors and style and provides a novel interactive artistic experience. This kind of empathic painting needs only a desk top computer and a webcam to work, so once you have the program and have calibrated it for the individual viewer, you are ready to start creating personalized art based on your mood.”
Maria Shugrina and Margrit Betke carried out the project from University of Boston.
Of course you could probably try to deceive the painting by making faces; hacking by acting.
While artists throughout the ages have claimed to inspire viewer’s emotions with their artwork, a new electronic artwork program is turning that notion on its ear.
Images gathered through a webcam can now change a piece of electronic artwork immediately in response to the viewer’s emotions. The software recognizes eight facial features that characterize the viewer’s emotional state, and then it adapts the colors and brushstrokes to match the mood of the viewer.
This means that if the viewer appears angry, the artwork that person will see will be constructed of darker colors and more violent brush strokes. If the viewer appears to be happy, that person will see more vibrant colors that have a more subtle application.
“[The program] does all of this in real time,” says John Collomosse of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bath in England, “meaning that as the viewer’s emotions change the artwork responds accordingly. This results in a digital canvas that smoothly varies its colors and style and provides a novel interactive artistic experience. This kind of empathic painting needs only a desk top computer and a webcam to work, so once you have the program and have calibrated it for the individual viewer, you are ready to start creating personalized art based on your mood.”
Maria Shugrina and Margrit Betke carried out the project from University of Boston.
Of course you could probably try to deceive the painting by making faces; hacking by acting.
