The Mail Art Box: An analog to digital postal service

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-8-2017

Publication Title

2017 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics, ICCE 2017

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.

First page number:

382

Last page number:

383

Abstract

This paper introduces an interactive media art work called the Mail Art Box that converts a handwritten message to a digital message to be transmitted to another person digitally. This paper explored the technology of taking a postcard picture in the embedded system and sending it via a wireless communication network. The work includes computer vision technology of recognizing the information of the postcard and extracting handwriting. The Mail Art Box was installed in a gallery SAI. © 2017 IEEE.

Keywords

Art; Postal services; Media; Seals; Computer vision; Servers; Webcams

Disciplines

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Language

english

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