Masked Reality

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India
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Description (in English)

Masked Reality consists of a real-time video installation in which the users face is recognized and overlaid with traditional mask from Southern India:

"In the interactive piece, an audience’s face is transformed in real-time into faces of Kathakali, a female form and Theyyam, a male form (both dances of Southern India), highlighting the fluidity of identity as every individual sees themselves in the light of a female and male form." (1)

The masks are generated using machine learning techniques. Chosen 2D output images where further modeled into 3D form and printed displayed along the video installation.

Situation machine vision is used in

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