Kanata is a multi-screen video feed that is comprised of a matrix of animated faces that slide to the right.
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Kanata uses two pieces of AI:
- a classifier selects the relevant YouTube videos autonomously – this classifier is trained on videos that are hand-picked by humans.
- a face detector finds and extracts the faces from within the selected videos.
Kanata is written in python and bash and heavily relies on open-source software.
![](https://kamangir-public.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/Canadians_v11.gif)
Kanata is programmatically restricted to only consuming videos that are licensed as Creative Commons – the assets generated by Kanata are licensed as Creative Commons as well.
Kanata is live at kamangir.net/Kanata.
Acknowledgments
- Zhang, K., Zhang, Z., Li, Z., and Qiao, Y. (2016). Joint face detection and alignment using multitask cascaded convolutional networks. IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 23(10):1499–1503 – https://github.com/ipazc/mtcnn
- YouTube channels that provide access to their content through Creative Commons linceses: list of channels coming soon… 🚧