Facial recognition template

[Richard I]

Hi
Can anyone help with a "facial recognition" template I can interface with netTalk using a webcam please?
or guidance on how I can achieve this...
Thanks
Richard
NT 8.71

[DonRidley]

What kind of template?

Tell us more....

Don

[Richard I]

Hi Don,

There seems to be  swing toward  facial  recognition  biometric software, in all sorts of different industries
- airport immigration, security checks, Supermarkets  etc and it seems to me that there is a place for a Capesoft product  to easily and simply integrate into our Clarion or NT software.

In the applications I have produced such a "template" would completely revolutionize them, by eliminating  barcode scanning keyboard entry etc.
A simple webcam would be the way to go.

Cheers
Richard

[Bruce]

hi Richard,

I looked at doing this some years ago for a visitor kiosk we made.
Basically the process boils down to;

a) get the webcam feed or photo from the browser
b) identify faces in the picture.
c) feed this into a facial recognition engine (there are quite a few on the market).

the first part is not so hard, taking the photo is trivial, identifying the faces is pretty easy (there are libraries for that) but the usefulness of the solution broken down a bit with the cost of the recognition engine. At the time (and this was some time back) it was fairly expensive to do - at least for our use case.

Of course times, and prices change, so you could definitely look some more.

cheers
Bruce

[DonRidley]

Hi Don,

There seems to be  swing toward  facial  recognition  biometric software, in all sorts of different industries
- airport immigration, security checks, Supermarkets  etc and it seems to me that there is a place for a Capesoft product  to easily and simply integrate into our Clarion or NT software.

In the applications I have produced such a "template" would completely revolutionize them, by eliminating  barcode scanning keyboard entry etc.
A simple webcam would be the way to go.

Cheers
Richard

Yes sir.  I'm familiar with facial recognition via my primary profession.

You answered my question in the second part.

That is pretty impressive that you rolled your own algorithm!  I would be interested in seeing a demo.

Don

[Richard I]

Hi Don, Sorry...it should read:
In the applications I have produced, such a "template" would completely revolutionize them,

Im not that clever, yet !

Cheers
Richard