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Performative Emotions

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Black and white photo of a little Lego clown. He is sad.

Digging through my old tweets, I found this gem. A billion dollar idea that I never did anything was. Terence Eden is on Mastodon@edentWhat if your phone's front-facing camera captured your reaction to reading a text message? #bluesky❤️ 0💬 1🔁 011:01 - Fri 03 October 2008 If my hazy memory is correct, we'd been asked to imagine future uses for a mobile phone with a front facing camera. The year was 2008. The iPhone had been out for a year - and it would be another two before it got a selfie-ca…

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Pareidolia and Computer Vision

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Humans are pretty spectacular at image recognition. We have a seemingly innate ability to look at an image and tell if it is that of a human face - even if it has been severely distorted. Occasionally though, the software in our brains is a little too eager to see a face. This phenomenon is called Pareidolia. It's what causes you to see dragons when you look at the clouds, and a smiling face when you see :-) Recently, I've been running facial recognition software on artworks held by…

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