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pathikrit
pathikrit

Reputation: 33439

How to do facial recognition from a live webcam in Java?

I am guessing I need 2 things:

  1. A library to capture video from a webcam (that library should also show a live preview applet)
  2. A library to actually do facial recognition (by facial recognition I mean not only find the region where a face is but also match or register against database of existing faces e.g. the Faces feature of iPhoto)

I am clueless where to start or which libraries to use - I found libraries that do either 1) or 2) but not sure how to interface them or if there are ones that just work out of the box and do both or should I roll something of my own??

Upvotes: 2

Views: 7572

Answers (2)

Aubin
Aubin

Reputation: 14853

OpenCV is for you : a Java binding exists

OpenCV is released under a BSD license and hence it’s free for both academic and commercial use. It has C++, C, Python and Java interfaces and supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android. OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform. Adopted all around the world, OpenCV has more than 47 thousand people of user community and estimated number of downloads exceeding 7 million. Usage ranges from interactive art, to mines inspection, stitching maps on the web or through advanced robotics.

Upvotes: 4

pathikrit
pathikrit

Reputation: 33439

I managed to create a stand alone Java Face detection package: https://github.com/pathikrit/JFaceRecog

Upvotes: 1

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