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| LONG LIVE THE NEW VIDEO FLESH | |||
in Collaboration with Cesar Branco ICHIM04, SARLE 04 - Science & Arts |
'Long Live the New Video Flesh' is an interactive projection based installation that seeks out to create reciprocity between human emotions and virtual/physical space. The main aim is to translate an emotional huma topology into a digital one. The way this is achieved is by creating a reall time three dimensional video wall that renders live footage from a webcam. The algorithm captures image stills, resizes them and renders each pixel of the image as a box which then can change size and be subjected to a series of behaviours. The way emotions are then mapped is by recognizing facial features in the video images and maps them into a matrix using a computer-vision based motion capture module. Facial features like a glimpse of a smile for example are captured and associated with a 'happy colour' and a 'happy behaviour' like a wave/ripple effect and other rulers are programmed for the capture and translation to the video wall of other emotional states | ||
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