Social Creature

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Concept: Social Creature

An aquarium with a single floating creature. It follows the person's face in front of the screen. It will have a sad facial expression when it can't identify a face, a happy facial expression when a face becomes tracked, and an ecstatic facial expression when there is more than one face.

Technical Feasibility

It will work using a face detection library opencv. The position of the creature will be mapped to the position of the larger face detected. Face detection also will determine if there are multiple faces in view, triggering the levels of happiness for the creature.

This can be done using processing, but also through flash (there is an opencv port to it). From my experience, flash is a bit harder to program but easier to animate with.

Presentation

This project, I believe, would benefit most from a simple laptop screen with a webcam inside the bezel. The small size enables a better correlation between the user's face and the position of the creature on screen. There is also a consistency in the position of a laptop webcam (centered at the top of the screen).