15 seconds of fame - an interactive, computer-vision based art installation

Author

Solina, Franc ; Peer, Peter ; Batagelj, Bostjan ; Juvan, Samo

Author_Institution

Fac. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Ljubljana Univ., Slovenia

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2-5 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

198

Abstract

"15 seconds of fame" is an interactive art installation, which elevates the face of a randomly selected gallery visitor for 15 seconds into a "work of art". The installation was inspired by Andy Warhol\´s statement that "In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes" as well as by the pop-art style of his works. The installation consists of a computer with a flat-panel monitor, a digital camera and a proprietary software that can detect human faces in images and graphically transform them. In this paper we present the technical background of the installation, in particular, how computer vision techniques were applied in this art installation.

Keywords

art; computer vision; face recognition; interactive systems; 15 seconds of fame; Andy Warhol; computer vision techniques; computer-vision based art installation; human face detection; interactive art installation; pop-art style; Art; Computer displays; Computer vision; Digital cameras; Face detection; Humans; Lenses; Painting; Peer to peer computing; Subspace constraints;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, 2002. ICARCV 2002. 7th International Conference on

Print_ISBN

981-04-8364-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICARCV.2002.1234820

Filename

1234820