HKU bulletin

For HKU bulletin - All-SEEING AI: Research advances in computer vision

I worked with The University of Hong Kong (HKU) on a cover and a spread for their magazine - HKU Bulletin focus on the theme of AI and computer vision.

For the cover concept, the client wanted the artwork to capture the revoltionary impact of AI-powered computer vision. I felt the best way to do that was to show the contrast between the world before and after AI in the same image. It came me naturally that I should use this analogy of a stream of bright light pouring into a dark cave. The mesh grid is a common visual shorthand for the early digital world, which I extend to cave stones to represent the massive pile of raw, unprocessed data from pre-AI era. Above, an eye-shaped opening breaks the darkness. Light pours in, turning the raw stone into something refined and valuable. Among all of these elements, a scientist is witnessing this unprecedented change, just as we all are.

For the spread, I kept the human eye as a central symbol of vision. To show how AI can simultaneously take in massive amounts of visual data and find meaning in the chaos, I pictured a large eye with a pupil patterned like a circuit board, pulling in a diverse stream of images toward its center.

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