On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:29 PM, mike begley<[email protected]> wrote: > > OpenCV works fairly well for face detection, but face recognition is > still very dicey last time I checked. A solution that may better match > the current state of technology is hand-sign recognition. If you could > assign different hand signs to different people, then that could be your > key, at least until face recognition becomes more robust. >
One of my projects at work is using OpenCV for face detection / identification, so it's a pretty easy hammer to make use of :). We haven't yet dug into the ID part of the puzzle though -- we may end up looking into PitPatt instead then. Aside from that, I'd like the system to be non-invasive, and to some degree, I need to go with what I know (software). There's also the "freaking out my coworkers" aspect. They'll probably be accepting to a web cam that can't really see anything but the microwave / toaster, but they may not feel the same way if I bust open the microwave to solder in new wiring. Using vision also opens the door for a lot of (unlikely, but cool) improvements, like learning that only certain people eat oatmeal, and the medium brown bowl is mine, but the big blue one is someone else's, or parsing out the time remaining from the microwave timer... etc :) --Rogan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Website: http://saturdayhouse.org/ Post: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
