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Live Facial Recognition - Mac


I'm working on a university project and I'm trying to find a Facial Recognition Software or SDK for mac, but I'm having no luck getting anything working.

I've had a play with JavaFaces, but this doesn't seem to be a live webcam link, it seems like it just searches through a database of pre defined images against an image you supplied. It works, but I want a webcam live recognition.

I also tried OpenCV, but it only seems to detect faces within Proce55ing, and not check against any pre defined images. OpenCV 2.4.2 I can't even get to work/open, although the documentation sounds like it has a pretty awesome FR, but I don't even know if it works with Mac.

I'm a bit of an amateur coder, so I don't really know how all this importing libraries, and what'not works.

What I'm trying to do, is to have my webcam/DV cam set up, and a build/software to view the feed and scan faces that it detects, then run that face with predefined faces already saved to the computer.

Could someone please give me advice?


Solution

  • You might want to take a look at Daniel Shiffman's blog post, OpenCV Matching Faces Over Time, which is a good place to start. At the end of the post he provides the full source for download in Processing.