Thursday 29 June 2006

Speaker: Patrick Tresset

System Simulation Ltd
Bedford Chambers
The Piazza
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 8HA

Tel: 020 7836 7406

Computer Arts Society
Public Meeting

AIKON: Artistic~Automated IKONograph.

AIKON mimics the drawing process developed by the artist, Patrick Tresset. AIKON is able to sketch faces automatically, starting from a picture, typically a photographic snapshot of a scene with humans. AIKON's implementation relies on an understanding of human visual perception, of the artist's work process, and of advances made in computer vision.

• About AIKON

Tresset is currently finishing an MSc in Arts Computing at Goldsmiths College. He will then pursue his research at Goldsmiths' Digital Studios preparing for a PhD. Patrick studied computer sciences twenty years ago in France. He then came to London to become a painter. During the past 15 years he has participated in solo and group exhibitions in London and Paris. During the past 3 years his interest in computing was revived. Joining forces with Frederic Fol Leymarie in 2004, he has been developing the AIKON project. Patrick main interest is to create autonomous systems capable of interpreting visual reality and producing artistic results.