I know I have been away, but I have a legitimate excuse this time. I have been reading up on face recognition and imaging patterns. It is a very interesting read. Ever since I have been working on the New York Fries – Shake Gary Coleman project I have been very interested in face recognition software and augmented reality. It is a vary hard subject and there are many long nights trying to figure out what to do.
It is a very early concept. So please bear with me. I will try to keep everyone posted
http://www.libspark.org/wiki/mash/Marilena
AS3 port of the OpenCV Object detection algorithm.
Thought this was interesting.
Hi Josh,
Do you have any recommendations for good image pattern / pattern recognition books you’ve read? I’m going to be getting into symbol recognition for legal paper and need to be able to distinguish fonts from symbols from handwriting kinda thing. Similar to your facial technology I’d imagine except not using live data with PixelBender.
Thanks!
Julian
Thanks, yeah I saw that about a week ago.
Squidder has a really neat one.
http://www.squidder.com/2009/02/26/realtime-face-detection-in-flash/
I am thinking of trying to apply PixelBender to the Flash Detection code so I can adjust the brightness and contrast. Right now I’m using a straight feed from the webcam and parsing all of the information and comparing it to a face (the shortened version of the code).
I will have an update coming out soon. I just need some more time fixing out bugs.
I often find reading Bill Buxton articles very interesting.
I actually stumbled upon one of his Gesture based recognitions
(http://www.billbuxton.com/input14.Gesture.pdf). It is a great read about the technology itself. The technology itself, I’ve spent a lot of time reading the OpenCV wiki (http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/).
This project in particular stemmed from seeing the FLARToolkit in action and working on some projects using it. I thought AR technology was really neat, and has unlimited potential once the technology can be fully utilized.
Hope that helps