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March 4th, 2011 | Posted by admin in Columbia | computer vision - (Comments Off on Homework Fun)

Face Detector at Work

A good example of face detection in OpenCV 2.2


Here is the first homework from my computational photography course at Columbia. For this homework we had to use a freely available face detector to correctly rotate a set or images that had been rotated either 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees. For each image we then needed to identify if the image was a photo of a group or of an individual. Finally we were required to use the face detector to extract a smoothed face image from a video. I did my project in C++ using the Haar cascade detectors baked into OpenCV 2.2. For the video portion of the homework I used a Kalman filter to smooth the detected face location and determine a good subimage location when the face detector failed to return a result. In the still images there are multiple colored boxes around each face. These boxes correspond to the different detector packages. The results were not as good as I would have liked. The detectors I used are based on Haar like features and I think some of the symmetry of the faces was preserved in the rotations causing the detectors to misfire. More example images can be found on the flickr set for this project. The video results are below. I put the code up on Google code. The source needs a bit of refactoring but I will be hacking on it all semester so it should get cleaned up.






Putin Face Detection

March 3rd, 2011 | Posted by admin in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Putin Face Detection)

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Elvis Face Detection

March 3rd, 2011 | Posted by admin in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Elvis Face Detection)

This is a short face tracking video I made for my Computational Photography class at Columbia University.

Face Tracker

March 3rd, 2011 | Posted by admin in Uncategorized - (Comments Off on Face Tracker)

This is a short face tracking video I made for my Computational Photography class at Columbia University.