credits dominikKoller

'Unknown Forms Of Face' looks for faces in random images.

A random image - usually looking like static noise - could possibly display anything (including a portrait of you). It just isn't very likely that you are going to see anything recognizable at all. However, when creating a large number of these images, it becomes more likely that some of them contain information distinguishable by the human eye - faces, for example. Running a face detection algorythm, those images are filtered out, and if you look (very) closely, you can see (human?) faces looking at you out of the gray randomness.

Unknown Forms of Face has been awarded a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2015, category 'u19 - Create Your World'.
It was in the exbhibition of the the Ars Electronica Festival 2015.

I also made a comparison of different frameworks, just for me to have an example of their differences and advantages. Realized in:

• vvvv w/ OpenCV
• Processing w/ OpenCV
• Javascript (Browser) w/ jQuery
• plain CPP w/ OpenCV

http://dominikkoller.net/UnknownFormsOfFace
https://github.com/DominikKoller/unknownFormsOfFace