Portrait by Robot


(YouTube link)

How cool would it be to have your portrait done by a robot? The robot was designed by Sylvain Calinon, robot researcher at the Learning Algorithms and Systems Laboratory (LASA).
When the robot recognizes a face in its field of view, it first grabs a snapshot of this face and extracts the relevant features and contours characterizing it. The robot then grabs a pen and start drawing the user's portrait, starting from the rough contours and adding details iteratively.

Link to Calinon’s site. -via Dump Trumpet

This could have far reaching implications. If I'm not mistaken one of the problems robots have is recognizing features and shapes.

I'm disappointed though, that we didn't get to see the drawing in comparison to the actual person. I wonder if it is because it wasn't very accurate.
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Color me unimpressed. Aside from the robotty proto-chat before and after the portrait, this is nothing more than undergrad-level image processing and simple mapping. Congratulations, you've invented the pen plotter.
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Justin, nothing to fear, it's not recognising anything. James is right. it's just essentially printing out a snapshot of the person, modified by a program similar to an Adobe Photoshop filter.

Essentially, this, as well as many other computer behavior simulations, really just proves how clever the human programmer can be at tricking other humans. It's amazing how ready humans are to personify nonliving things if they resemble living things. Most of us had our first experience in this as toddlers with various stuffed animals. :)
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I skimmed the caption and saw the phrase Sylvain Calinon, robot researcher. What my mind saw was Susan Calvin, Robot Researcher.. if you don't understand this, go back and read the Asimov robot stories..
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