Leveraging on several years of research and development in facial recogition, emotion detection, sensor and vision systems, the exhibition brings together in a series interactive installations and artworks. The exhibition includes three medium to large scale artworks and a series of smaller wall and pedastal based pieces. Images and videos presented here demonstrate a functioning emotion detection and signal light pattern behaviors.
Alternate Curved configuration
Red, Green, Wait (哼路灯)
dimensions: 8' wide, 7.6' tall, 3' deep
Red, Green, Wait (红绿灯), an installation using 24 actual traffic signals, with software that detects emotion states of viewers in a public space. The individual traffic signals are set up in a matrix display a series of patterns that range from all red, to all yellow to all green, with varying states inbetween. The patterns will also display intermediate behaviors with randomized behavior patterns, and even one iteration of Conroy's Game of life.
Cameras are strategically placed in a gallery or public space to detect faces in the field. Emotion recognition software developed for this work transmits captured images to a cloud based emotion API. The images are analyzed to glean a weighted response of the seven basic emotion states(Eckman.) Emotion states are averaged over a short time interval to create a composite of the emotions detected. The pattern states of lights are modified based on this composite emotion state over time.
The video on left shows of the lights responding to facial expressions and emotions detected with patterns representing neutral, negative and positive emotions.
