How to implement face recognition in an image in .net 3.5?

Question

Hi all,

I need to implement face recognition like in orkut album.

In my website when a user uploads a photo and checks the photo in album I need to implement the feature and place rectangles over the faces in photo like in orkut album like in this link.

Please help me to implement this.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to use OpenCV, or more specifically, a C# wrapper library for OpenCV.

I think you can implement some (very) basic face detection using OpenCVDotNet, although you should be aware that I don't think it's actively being developed. I just noticed I'm still on the list as a project committer, but I haven't done any work on it for a long time (if ever, can't remember why I got added in the first place).

You should probably go with Emgu CV, which is a much better C# wrapper for OpenCV. It is actively developed, and is compatible with OpenCV 2.0, and has a wider community surrounding it, and the documentation is good enough that you can easily get face detection working pretty quickly.