Bot film, see how they see the world
Timo Arnall’s short film is edited from several sources of footage of robots or embedded computers used to gather information about human behaviour. The footage was collected from a variety of sources, all using computer vision research to explore how machines can make sense of the world. Watching this film is like seeing through the eyes of a child that is just beginning to learn. Robot vision is in its infancy but machines are increasingly designed to be more and more intelligent.
“The Robot-Readable World is pre-Cambrian at the moment, but machine vision is becoming a design material alongside metals, plastics and immaterials. It’s something we need to develop understandings and approaches to, as we begin to design, build and shape the senses of our new artificial companions.” - Warren Ellis
The footage reveals the fractional perspective a machine has, able to record a tiny sliver of what is actually happening. This sometimes matches with how humans see the world and sometimes doesn’t.
Timo is a creative director at BERG, a design and invention studio in East London. They believe that the near-future is where things around us start to display behaviour - acquiring motive and agency as they act and react to the context around them. The design bots - software embedded into an object or environment that has motive and agency.
The film’s credits list these sources of bot vision:
Line Queueing Analysis - youtube.com/watch?v=AiLFxckWYbI
Tracking in a Parking Lot - youtube.com/watch?v=-e21jpWhqVM
Vehicle classification - youtube.com/watch?v=1wxg4nUQ_DA
Video Analytics Identifies Tailgating - youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=a5z0D4yLfN0
High density crowd tracking - youtube.com/watch?v=GBX6oHTaACc
Mono-Camera based Road Marking and Lane Detection - Vacek, Dillmann 2007 - youtube.com/watch?v=Ni9nAm-Thsw
Human Tailgating - youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=gW5uIVNzkxI
Crowd Analysis and Tracking - youtube.com/watch?v=-rIySMTyOfY
Exit Lane Analysis - youtube.com/watch?v=9HyzKCjlyM0
Tunnel Intrusion Detection - youtube.com/watch?v=cFw1USYGGj4
Traffic Counting and Congestion - youtube.com/watch?v=yZteltUNrjU
Car Counting - youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=8ABnPAsVDuI
IriSyS IRC People Counting Cameras - youtube.com/watch?v=TNFNUYfgLh0
Eye-Tracking of Outdoor Advertising - youtube.com/watch?v=_znAiIvhFTA
iOnRoad Demo - youtube.com/watch?v=3F6o-sdxgKc
Eye Tracking by SMI: Bee Swarm TV Commercial - youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=X15pJ7mH-B0
Eyetrack and Heatmap using Computer Vision based Human Visual Attention model vs Real Eyetracking study - catalogue Carrefour - youtube.com/watch?v=buvJnHbL-xg
Real Time Face Tracking with pose estimation on tv clips - OPENCV - youtube.com/watch?v=j_vrZzy-u1s&feature=autoplay&list=PL9D1304E973FF285E&lf=results_main&playnext=2
Eye Tracking, Gaze Tracking - youtube.com/watch?v=-UhCNei6lZY
Road / Traffic Sign Recognition - youtube.com/watch?v=hU7yHQkg-7U
Traffic signs detection and recognition - youtube.com/watch?v=hijETmyBUQc
Real Time Pedestrians Tracking with MOTION DETECTOR - OPENCV - youtube.com/watch?v=3Uwd0165k0Q&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL9D1304E973FF285E
Face tracking stereo system video sample 1/3 - youtube.com/watch?v=W-QDEFS8fkY
Traffic Counting and Congestion - youtube.com/watch?v=yZteltUNrjU
India Driving - Computer Vision Challenge - youtube.com/watch?v=4vuKnqEltJY
Vision based Navigation and Localization - youtube.com/watch?v=nb0VpSYtJ_Y
ENCARA2 (Face detection), 2008 - youtube.com/watch?v=xkVyek4KiBA
Face detection v6 - TV clips - youtube.com/watch?v=f_aDjpP3HfI
Multiple car tracking with blob tracking & MHT - youtube.com/watch?v=pcp8qCDl15E
CellTracker: program for automated cell tracking on biological images - youtube.com/watch?v=SLYgvHzAm2w
Optical flow demo - youtube.com/watch?v=ysGM3CfBVpU
Choppy output 2 - youtube.com/watch?v=dHNnfm8iAGo
Face Tracking with OpenCV - youtube.com/watch?v=opf-uVbQU34
Berg London: “Robot Readable World. The Film”
Rhizome: “Robopix”
The Guardian: “How bots are taking over the world”
