Just Looking?—Motivations and Mechanisms for Machine Vision in the 21st Century
Description
Current machine vision systems produce a large number of images, many of which are never seen by humans. Yet, in order to understand, critique and shape the impact of machines seeing with abilities beyond human vision capability, humans will need to learn to see like machines, to understand their abstractions and their categorizations of things in the world. The interactive artwork '20/X,' on exhibit during the symposium, brings these issues into focus. Collaboratively developed by artists Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler, and machine vision researchers Eugenio Culurciello and Alfredo Canziani, the artwork explores the cultural and technological implications of visuality, representation and knowledge in the age of intelligent seeing machines. Talks by the collaborators will provide background information on the science, technology and artistic strategies combined in the production of the installation, which allows visitors to experience the process of looking from the perspective of a complex machine vision system.
Location
Fowler Hall
Start Date
9-18-2014 4:00 PM
DOI
10.5703/1288284315971
Just Looking?—Motivations and Mechanisms for Machine Vision in the 21st Century
Fowler Hall
Current machine vision systems produce a large number of images, many of which are never seen by humans. Yet, in order to understand, critique and shape the impact of machines seeing with abilities beyond human vision capability, humans will need to learn to see like machines, to understand their abstractions and their categorizations of things in the world. The interactive artwork '20/X,' on exhibit during the symposium, brings these issues into focus. Collaboratively developed by artists Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler, and machine vision researchers Eugenio Culurciello and Alfredo Canziani, the artwork explores the cultural and technological implications of visuality, representation and knowledge in the age of intelligent seeing machines. Talks by the collaborators will provide background information on the science, technology and artistic strategies combined in the production of the installation, which allows visitors to experience the process of looking from the perspective of a complex machine vision system.
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