Tuesday, 20 July 2021
AI has set its destructive sights on one of life’s greatest pleasures: visiting galleries. An Italian museum has started using AI-powered cameras to measure the “attraction value” of works of art. The ShareArt devices collect visual data on spectators, such as how long they look at a painting and where on the canvas their attention is focused. “Thanks to simple data elaboration, an observer’s gaze can be translated into a graphic,” Stefano Ferriani, one of the researchers behind the project, told Bloomberg CityLab. “We can detect where most of peoples’ attention is concentrated.” Credit: ENEAThe Istituzione Bologna Musei has started rolling out…
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