Smiling Buddha
imLab@NTU: Yi-Ping Hung, Ching-Yao Lin (2008 Silver Award), He-Lin Luo
2014
Interactive Art
Smile…and others will return with smile.
We all know this, but often forgot, especially when we are frustrated or angry. This interactive installation displays a 2D array of animated portraits waiting for your smiles. After detecting your smile, the interactive wall will begin to project your smile to the one you pay attention to, which will then invoke the attention and smiles of all the other people on the display wall. There is really nobody outside of you. Everything you experience is created by your inner heart. As you see the Buddha within you, you will see the Buddha within all - it is the joy of compassion.
To implement the natural interaction between the audience and the display wall, we have integrated several state‐of the‐art image processing and analysis techniques in this interactive artwork, including face detection, smile detection, image morphing, and attention detection.
Yi-Ping Hung
Artist IntroductionYi-Ping Hung is currently a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at National Taiwan University. From 1990 to 2002, he was with the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, where he became a tenured research fellow in 1997. He served as a deputy director of the Institute of Information Science from 1996 to 1997, and as the director of the Graduate Institute of Networking and Multimedia from 2007 to 2013. His current research interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, image processing, virtual reality, multimedia system, and human-computer interaction.
Jin-Yao Lin
Artist IntroductionJin-Yao Lin from imLab is the Silver Award winner of K.T. Creativity Awards, Interactive Art in 2008.