Oct 18, 2013
Lewis by William D. Smart and Cindy M. Grimm, 2002
'Lewis' is the world's first robot photographer that moves, composes and take pictures by itself.
It is basically looking for skin in the image and it finds people's faces, forearms and legs and it then uses a number of techniques to decide which of those patches of skin are faces... Once it has decided where the faces in the image are, it tries to compose them nicely, something you would want to hang on a wall.
-William D. Smart and Cindy M. Grimm-
Paper published in ACM SIGGRAPH 2002 Article on BBC Article on Washington University in St. Louis Magazine