> ‘Cloud Face’ is a collection of cloud images that are recognized as human face by a face-detection algorithm. It is a result of computer’s vision error, but they often look like faces to human eyes, too. This work attempts to examine the relation between computer vision and human vision.
Is it really computer error? Most of us probably saw the face of Einstein in the one cloud photo, because in fact there was a strong resemblance. If a artist paints a caricature or abstract image we can often identify the original subject. That's not error. There is something else going on here.
It is an error in a sense that these are not in fact faces, but clouds. While humans also can see shapes of faces in clouds, we are capable of understanding that these are not real faces. Computer algorithm is not capable of recognizing the difference which results in such misclassification, thus it is failing its intended purpose.
