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Title: Facial recognition template
Post by: Richard I on May 13, 2018, 02:20:12 AM

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

Title: Re: Facial recognition template
Post by: DonRidley on May 14, 2018, 09:49:15 AM

What kind of template?

Tell us more.... :)

Don

Title: Re: Facial recognition template
Post by: Richard I on May 14, 2018, 04:07:04 PM

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

Title: Re: Facial recognition template
Post by: Bruce on May 15, 2018, 03:15:28 AM

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

Title: Re: Facial recognition template
Post by: DonRidley on May 15, 2018, 03:34:15 AM

Quote from: Richard I on May 14, 2018, 04:07:04 PM

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

Title: Re: Facial recognition template
Post by: Richard I on May 15, 2018, 04:54:03 PM

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