[spectre] Announcement: SPEKTRUM Exhibition #2: HUMAN ♥ ROBOT - 25-27 September

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Exhibition #2: HUMAN ♥ ROBOT   We are excited to announce the second exhibition taking place at SPEKTRUM, an art space focused on art, science and community, from 25-27 September 2015.  The exhibition has been curated by Alfredo Ciannameo, art director at SPEKTRUM, and will open on Friday 25 September at 18:00.   Projects Aravinth Panchadcharam, GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR HUMAN-ROBOT-INTERACTION Ingo Randolf, URBAN NEEDLE So Kanno, DIASPORA LETTERS Thomas O’Reilly, CHARLOTTE   Program 25 Sept 2015 (18:00-24.00):  Opening of the exhibition  26 Sept 2015 (15:00-24.00):  17:00 human robot interaction demonstration  27 Sept 2015 (15:00-22:00):  20.00 special performance - urban needle meets 2 sound artists: Bernhard Wöstheinrich redundantrocker.wordpress.com and Fump www.fump.at Read more / Join on Facebook   Aravinth Panchadcharam, GESTURE RECOGNITION FOR HUMAN-ROBOT-INTERACTION Human-robot interaction (HRI) has been a topic of both science fiction and academic speculation even before any robots existed. HRI research is focusing to build an intuitive and easy communication with the robot through speech, gestures and facial expressions. The use of hand gestures provides a better solution than conventional human-machine interfaces. Furthermore, translations of hand gestures can help in accomplishing the ease and naturalness desired for HRI. This has motivated a very active research concerned with computer vision-based analysis and interpretation of hand gestures. In this project, he implemented the hand gesture recognition for a humanoid robot Aldebaran NAO by modelling, training, classifying and recognising gestures based on computer vision algorithms and machine learning techniques such as Adaptive Naive Bayesian Classifier. Gestures are modelled based on skeletal points and the features are extracted using NiTE framework using a depth camera Asus Xtion. As a result, on one hand, gestures will be used to command the robot to execute certain actions and on the other hand, gestures will be translated and spoken out by the robot. This project is implemented at DAI Labor with the help of Dr. Yuan Xu who is a passionate Roboticist. https://github.com/AravinthPanch/gesture-recognition-for-human-robot-interaction    Ingo Randolf, URBAN NEEDLE Urban needle scans its environment in an automated process, transforming the shape of the room into sound. like a record needle it plays back a room, producing room-based noise. the room is the reel. urban needle sonifies architectures and urban spaces. http://ingorandolf.info So Kanno, DIASPORA LETTERS This is an asemic writing project which uses machine learning to abstract hand writing letters by means of an Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) extracting shapes and patterns from strokes with ignoring meaning of them. Human can recognise what language it is without understanding meaning when he/she hears someone’s conversation on street, if he/she have heard of the language. it means human learning sound without meaning from language. Will it happen to letters too? http://kanno.so Thomas O’Reilly, CHARLOTTE PROGRAM   Charlotte is an interactive drawing robot that moves by sensing and reacting to changes of light. It is a tool a created for those curious about new ways of exploring their environment. Charlotte can be easily replicated through an open source maker kit that has been designed to demystify the ‘black box’ by revealing insights into electronics and code through its assembly. http://www.toreilly.com   SPEKTRUM is a project space in Neukölln for idealisation, realisation and exhibition of technology-based artworks, media-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle "do-it-together-with-others". Above all, we are an open space promoting participatory processes to co-define and co-design a social and physical playground for curiosity and critical understanding.   Alfredo Ciannameo & Lieke Ploeger www.spektrumberlin.de i...@spektrumberlin.de Bürknerstr 12 12047 Berlin - Neukölln 030-25099397 Facebook Twitter Website

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