Happiness is the only true emotion

Clement Lambelet

ISBN 13: 9791090306899

Published by RVB Books, FR, 2019

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Since 2000, computer searches are leading to develop systems capable of recognising and interpreting human emotions. Clément Lambelet gets interested in process of facial automatic recognition and reflects upon its generalisation regarding to its development in every social media (Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat). For the book Happiness is the only true emotion, he worked on a panel of portraits given by the Pain Express Set from Stirling University in Scotland, he selected one emotion per person, reframed images and saved only the face. The artist manipulated each photograph and worked on its materiality to get more expressive images. These portraits become a vector of emotion. Each picture is then submitted to the Microsoft Cognitive Emotion API challenging the accuracy of these systems. The Emotion API only recognises Happiness with certitude.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Happiness is the only true emotion
• Publisher: RVB Books, FR
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9791090306899
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 736 grams

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Synopsis

The Pain Expressions Set, established by the University of Stirling, is an emotion database containing 599 portraits of thirteen women and ten men, probably actors. Each person expresses six basic human emotions (anger, disgust, fear, happiness, sadness, surprise), plus ten expressions of pain. Systems or devices that can automatically recognise and interpret human emotions are the subject of this work, for which visual artist Clément Lambelet chose one emotion per person and cropped the pictures to retain only the face. Each image was then submitted to the Microsoft Emotion API to test its accuracy. Happiness was the only emotion it could recognise with certainty.