"One aspect of the painting process is appreciation. And there is appreciation both of the subject matter (i.e., what you are being asked to paint), and there is appreciation of how your art materials and you colour palette and your painting styles can affect the mood, the atmosphere and the emotion being expressed in the painting.

So today we are bringing together a combination of two systems from Imperial. Firstly, there is the system that Michel and colleagues in Maja Pantic's machine vision group, that is going to be given a video sequence taken live from the video camera here. And in that video sequence, we are going to ask someone to express an emotion. Then their software is going to take the video and it's going to do two things. First of all, it's going to detect that emotion. And it's also going to detect where the features are, i.e., where the eyes, and the mouth of the subject are.

Then they are going to pass that to my software, which is called The Painting Fool. And The Painting Fool is going to use this information about where the eyes and the mouth are, and what emotion is being expressed, and it's going to choose its art materials accordingly, it's going to choose its colour palette accordingly, it's going to exaggerate some of the features, and it's going to alter the painting style to fit the emotion."

04:30-08:00 First demo
09:20- Second demo