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Submission + - Machine Learning allows actors to create games that understand body language (gold.ac.uk)

Submitted by ptresset on Sunday August 12, 2012 @03:58PM

ptresset writes: Goldsmiths college developing technology with natural responses to human interaction. The technology enables video games characters to move in a more natural way, responding to the player’s own body language rather than mathematical rules. The hypothesis is that the actors’ artistic understanding of human behaviour will bring an individuality, subtlety and nuance to the character that it would be difficult to create in hand authored models.

Submission + - Patrick Tresset's robots draw faces and doodle whe (wired.co.uk)

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on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:02PM

ptresset writes: "Pop along to the Tenderpixel art space in Soho this month, and you could grab a drawing of your mug, sketched by one of Patrick Tresset's robotic arms.

The sketching bot is called Paul. It starts off the exhibition by scanning the room and looking for people with its motorised eye. When it spots a human face, it uses an edge detection technique called Gabor filter (which is modeled after cells in a human's visual cortex) to pick out the salient lines."

Submission + - robot drawn toilet gender signs

Submitted by ptresset on Monday October 04, 2010 @08:51PM

ptresset writes: robots draw toilet signs based on users

http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/04/wtf-robots-sketch-your-portrait-on-the-way-to-the-bathroom-video/

Submission + - Low cost robotic arm sketches faces (aikon-gold.com)

Submitted by ptresset on Saturday February 13, 2010 @03:52PM

ptresset writes: A low cost robotic arm has been sketching faces at the Kinetica2010 art fair in London...

Created by the Aikon project research team....the system drew faces non-stop.. it's creator having to take the role of an automata to repetitively change the paper. The Aikon project is based at Goldsmiths College, University of London.
The main objective of the Aikon project is to implement a computational system capable of simulating the various important processes involved in face sketching by artists. The ensemble of processes to be simulated, including; the visual perception the subject and the sketch, the drawing gestures, the cognitive activity: reasoning. the influence of the years of training, etc., the inter-processes information flows. It is evident that due to knowledge and technological limitations the implementation of each process will remain coarse and approximate. The system implemented is expected to draw in its own style.
Video footage available here: http://www.aikon-gold.com/

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