London : A digital version of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting Mona Lisa can replace her enigmatic smile with a frown, pucker her lips and follow viewers’ movements with her eyes. The digital ‘Living Mona Lisa’ employs artificial intelligence technology and has been developed by a team of 40 French technicians and artists, who worked on the project for nearly a year.
The ‘Living Mona Lisa’ is equipped with a motion sensing device used in interactive video games. It picks up spectators’ movements and their images, allowing her “to react depending on her mood”, said Jean-Claude Heudin, the head of the Paris Internet and Multimedia Institute, which developed the artificial intelligence system.
