It is a collection of the testing and documentation videos for the artwork, Face Mirror.

Face Mirror documentation 2

This is the final testing of the Face Mirror artwork run from a desktop Mac.

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Face Mirror documentation 2

This is the final testing of the Face Mirror artwork run from a desktop Mac.

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Face Mirror documentation 2

This is the final testing of the Face Mirror artwork run from a desktop Mac.

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Face Mirror documentation 1

It is a test run of the desktop version of the Face Mirror artwork. The final version will be displayed in a Raspberry Pi.

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Face swapping exercise with Mirror

This is a demonstration video to test the use of Dlib and OpenCV in Python for simple face swapping effect.

It is the collection of testing and documentation videos for the artwork, iFaceDQ.

iFaceDQ 2021

This is a testing video of the artwork iFaceDQ (http://www.magicandlove.com/blog/2021/03/27/ifacedq-2021/) shown in the Banga Gallery in City University of Hong Kong. The work will detect the visitor’s face and find …a closest match against the face database of the Hong Kong Legislative Council members. Based on the profile of the matched member, it will assess the risk of being disqualified from the Council.Show More

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iFaceDQ 2021

This is a testing video of the artwork iFaceDQ (http://www.magicandlove.com/blog/2021/03/27/ifacedq-2021/) shown in the Banga Gallery in City University of Hong Kong. The work will detect the visitor’s face and find …a closest match against the face database of the Hong Kong Legislative Council members. Based on the profile of the matched member, it will assess the risk of being disqualified from the Council.Show More

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iFaceDQ – testing

This is another testing video of the artwork iFaceDQ 2021 (http://www.magicandlove.com/blog/2021/03/27/ifacedq-2021/).

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iFaceDQ – work in progress documentation 1

This is the collection of all the Legislative Council members as of year end 2020 with the facial landmarks and the triangulations.

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iFaceDQ – work in progress documentation 2

This is a demo video of using Dlib to extract the 68 facial landmarks and the mesh with triangulation.

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Face swapping exercise with Mirror

This is a demonstration video to test the use of Dlib and OpenCV in Python for simple face swapping effect.

It is the collection of the testing videos for the artwork, Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3, the Red Scout.

Face swapping demo for the exhibition

Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3 – The Red Scout exhibition
https://beahkpatriot3theredscout.wordpress.com/

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Face swapping demo for the exhibition

Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3 – The Red Scout exhibition
https://beahkpatriot3theredscout.wordpress.com/

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OpenCV DNN Face Detector example

It is an implementation of the OpenCV Face Detector example in Python and Pygame, with reference to the tutorial in https://www.learnopencv.com/age-gender-classification-using-opencv-deep-learning-c-python/

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Face Lankmarks Testing 2

This is another testing with the use of Dlib and its face landmarks detection, for my coming artwork, Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3 – The Red Scout.

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Face Landmarks Testing 1

This is another testing with the use of Dlib and its face landmarks detection, for my coming artwork, Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3 – The Red Scout. The …images are the samples to be used in the machine learning of the face recognition phase.Show More

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Face matching with Dlib and Python

It is another testing for my artwork, Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3 – The Red Scout. It finds the closest match of my face in front of the …webcam with the Hong Kong Executive Council members. The matching data is based on the vector from Dlib of 128 elements.Show More

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Face recognition test 1 with Python

It is a testing video for the preparation of the new artwork, Be a Hong Kong Patriot, Part 3 – The Red Scout. It is one of my first test …with face recognition in Python, using Pygame and Dlib.Show More

It is the collection of all testing, documentation videos for different versions of the Movement in Time, Part 2 artwork. Details of the artworks are available in my website at 2022 version, 2021 Red Flag version, 2020 live version, 2019 Red Temple version, 2016 original version.

Movement in Time, Part 2, Testing 2

This is another testing for the new version of Movement in Time, Part 2, using the original CVImage library for Processing and the dense optical flow function in OpenCV.

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Movement in Time, Part 2, Testing 2

This is another testing for the new version of Movement in Time, Part 2, using the original CVImage library for Processing and the dense optical flow function in OpenCV.

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Movement in Time, Part 2, Testing 3

Testing 3 with PixelFlow library in Processing. It uses the optical flow and particles system to visualise the martial art fighting sequence from The Burning of Red Lotus Temple 1963.

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Movement in Time, Part 2 Testing 4

Another testing with Processing and the PixelFlow library with the fighting sequence in the film The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple 1963.

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Movement in Time Part 2 Testing 5

Another testing with PixelFlow library from Processing.org.

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Movement in Time Part 2 Testing 6

This version summarised the optical flow data into a 5 x 5 grid system, with the magnitude and major direction of the motion.

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Movement in Time Part 2 Testing 7

This is another version of the 5 x 5 grid summarising the optical flow data for matching against the Chinese calligraphy database.

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Movement in Time Part 2 Testing 8

It is a testing version to render the script style Chinese calligraphy of the One Thousand Classics using Processing and the PixelFlow library.

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Movement in Time Part 2 Testing 9

This one is the cloth simulation by PixelFlow library with Processing. It used the brush stroke as force to create the wrinkle.

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Movement in Time Part 2 Testing 11

First prototype for the Movement in Time Part 2 new version. It uses the fighting sequence from the 1963 martial art film The Burning of Red Lotus Temple to generate …cursive style Chinese calligraphy from a database of the One Thousand Classics.Show More

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Movement in Time, Part II, preview 2

It is a computational cinema artwork in which I used 4 recent Chinese martial art films fighting sequences to generate cursive style Chinese calligraphy. The custom software analysed the movement …data with optical flow and matched against a database of 1000 digitised characters written in cursive calligraphic style.Show More

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Movement in Time (Part 2) preview 1

This is a preview version of the Movement in Time (Part 2) project. The work is a computational cinema project which I extracted live fighting sequences in popular Chinese martial …art films. It used a custom software to analyse the movement data and matched against a database of Chinese cursive style calligraphy of 1000 characters.Show More

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Cursive style Chinese calligraphy recognition test

In this clip, I developed a testing software to match the live writing of Cursive style Chinese calligraphy against the database of the 1000 Classic text example.

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It is the collection of the testing videos for the artwork, Movement in Space, Part 2.

Movement in Space (V2) Testing 5

The coming Movement in Space project with UI testing in Processing

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Movement in Space (V2) Testing 5

The coming Movement in Space project with UI testing in Processing

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Movement in Space (V2) Testing 4

More testing with the 4 viewing directions of the Movement in Space animation

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Movement in Space (V2) Testing 3

Single view of the 3D version of animation for the Movement in Space project

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Movement in Space (V2) Testing 2

3D view of 4 directions for the Movement in Space project

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Movement in Space (V2) Testing 1

Movement in Time project animation testing with views from 4 directions.

It is the collection of video samples of the artwork, Movement in Time, Part 1.

Movement in Time – Sample

This is a sample of the live run of the artwork – Movement in Time. It contains only 4 instead of 100 classic Hollywood film clips. The clips are: Jazz …Singer, Ben Hur, North by Northwest and Psycho.Show More

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Movement in Time – Sample

This is a sample of the live run of the artwork – Movement in Time. It contains only 4 instead of 100 classic Hollywood film clips. The clips are: Jazz …Singer, Ben Hur, North by Northwest and Psycho.Show More

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Movement in Time – Interactive version

This is a live testing of the interactive version of the work, Movement in Time.

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Movement in Time 002

This is the second recording for the test run for the Microworld, Hong Kong exhibition in June 2014. It uses a clip from Ben Hur (1959) and renders with optical …flow detection from the OpenCV library.Show More

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Movement in Time 001

This is a sample recording of the coming exhibition in Microworld, Hong Kong using the clip from White Heat (1949).

It is a collection of the testing and documentation videos for the artwork, Movement in Void, a Tribute to TV Buddha.

Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha

The first edit of the documentation video of the exhibition.

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Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha

The first edit of the documentation video of the exhibition.

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Movement in Void – Interface

It is a new design of the interface for the self organizing map.

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Movement in Void – Low Angle

Documentation video of the artwork, Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha, in low angle.

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Movement in Void – Front View

Documentation video of the Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha project in frontal view.

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Movement in Void, Top View

Documentation video of the artwork, Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha, top view shot.

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Brainwave visualization with OpenFrameworks 2

It is another version of the brainwave visualization using OpenFrameworks for my exhibition project – Movement in Void.

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Brainwave visualization with OpenFrameworks 1

It is another visualization software written in OpenFrameworks for my exhibition project – Movement in Void.

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Brainwave visualization with Neurosky's tool

It is a brainwave recording of myself using the Neurosky’s Brainwave Visualizer.

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Neurosky MindWave in Processing – Fluid Simulation

This is another testing with MindWave brain wave sensor and Processing. The 4 wave components, alpha, beta, gamma and theta are displayed as fluid simulation. For details, please refer to …the description at http://www.magicandlove.com/blog/2012/04/11/more-mindwave-in-processing/Show More

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First test with MindWave and Processing

This is my first testing with the MindWave brainwave sensor and the Processing programming language. Details and code can be found in http://www.magicandlove.com/blog/2012/03/15/neurosky-mindwave-and-processing/

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Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha (Microwave Festival version)

Documentation of the artwork, Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha, in the Microwave International Media Arts Festival, 2016, in City Hall Hong Kong

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Movement in Void – A Tribute to TV Buddha (Microwave version)

Setup testing of the artwork – Movement in Void, version 2 in the Microwave International Media Arts Festival 2016, City Hall, Hong Kong