Where does your smile place?

1. How are faces recognized? There are various face recognition methods using a computer. Most of them rely on a face degree determination method, where a part of the image in the camera is taken out and then determined to be a face or not. The image is verified against a standard created statistically from a massive face image database. 2. The mechanism of smile recognition. Like face detection, the mechanism of recognizing a smile relies on statistic determination based on massive smile data collected for this task. This device "grades" the degree of your smile and ranks it.

Challenge yourself with Aha! Movie and Aha! Change!

Our visual perception function is good at recognizing fast changes, but we have trouble acknowledging changes that occur slowly.Also, if a monotone image is placed between two other images, we are unable to see how the images changed.But when we do realize this difference, we are surprised and focus on that part, making the change obvious.This process of recognizing image change is also the process of being inspired, and so we call this experiment the Aha! Experience.

Try and make various shadow puppets.

There is an infrared camera inside the large screen that recognizes shadow puppet figures.The computer generates the matching CG image formed by the shadow casted by your hands.There are 10 shadow puppet figures that correspond to 10 CG animal images.Three people can play at the same time.

Experience the change in your perception of color!

Inside your eyes are light-sensitive "cone cells"that detect color.Your experience of color is based on the combination of cone cells that respond to light.We are able to see a variety of colors thanks to these light sensitive cone cells.

Play with the latest sensor technology!

This game incorporates SmartSkin, a sensor technology developed by Sony Computer Science Laboratories,Inc. The computer measures the positions of the people touching the table.No matter how many people there are, it can simultaneously acknowledge every player.

What do the movements of the dots symbolize?

The brain has the ability to guess and judge the motion of visible things. The brain is able to imagine and deduce from simple dots whether a figure is a man or a woman and what a person is doing.

[CyberCode & Web Camera]
What is installed in CyberCode?
[Active CyberCode Keyboard]
Play with the sounds installed in the code.

The CyberCode is a 2D code, developed by the Sony Computer Science Laboratories and designed to make camera-mounted computers early find it in the real world.When a CyberCode is shot with camera, 3D coodenates and gradient date as well as the ID of each code can be recognized in a real-time manner.Furthermore, depending on the read data, various information and 3D graphics are displayed on the monitor in tune with the code direction or movement.Watching through the camera, you can feel as if the information or graphics.

Try to control the time data installed in the tiles through fast-forwarding and rewinding.

This is a new interface developed by the Sony Computer Science Research Center.From a split instant that cannot even be caught by the eye to a period of several months and years, you are able to actually compare them on the screen and experience the mystery of time perception.

Let's communicate with a mirror world.

Twelve control buttons will take you to different virtual worlds.You can experience flows of time or worlds of fire or ripples or sparkling particles. Interacting with your image on screen will make you feel as if you were talking to yourself inside the mirror.The combination of real time image processing and real time computer graphics has resulted in the special video effects.

The letters and images you write will change to sound. Can you discover the hidden trick?

Each Chinese character has its original hieroglyph. Stylish Bone System converts drawn Chinese characters into images and sounds that represent that represent the meaning of the drawn characters.

Put on the glasses and look at the pendulum.What do you see?

When you put on the glasses, the pendulum looks like it is spinning.The secret behind this lies in the mechanism of the human eyes and brain.When we see an object, our right eye and left eye are seeing different images.These images are put together in the brain and then become information. The right lens of these glasses is black, so information taken in from the right eye reaches the brain with a delay.This results in a discrepancy between the positions of the pendulum acknowledged by each eye.That is why the pendulum looks like it is spinning with the glasses on.

Why wi l l we feel a 3-D impression?

Our two eyes play an Important role in perceiving objects three-dimensionally.Since the positions of our eyes differ, what we see with our left eye is actually a little different from what we see with our right. This difference is called binocular disparity, and the brain uses this to calculate distance and help us perceive things three-dimensionally.