Face-tracking libraries for Java or Python

Question

Hi,

I'm looking for a way to identify faces (not specific people, just where the faces are) and track them as they move across a room.

We're trying to measure walking speed for people, and I assumed this would be the easiest way of identifying a person as a person. We'll have a reasonably fast camera for the project, so I can probably use some logic for seeing if "face1 in frame00 == face1 in frame01".

Ideally such a software would return a list of faces (as in x,y locations) and their sizes.

Answer 1

Hi lfaraone,

"faint" (The Face Annotation Interface) might be what you're looking for.

http://faint.sourceforge.net/

http://technoroy.blogspot.com/2008/06/faint-search-for-faces.html

I never used it myself. However, I played with the application which bundles with faint.

Answer 2

There was an article about this in the German "Linux Magazin".

They used the Open Computer Vision Library which offers a whole bunch of algorithms to process images in various ways.

Answer 3

Checkout OpenCV Python Interface

Answer 4

CodeProject has a whole raft of articles in various languages.