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ofxFaceTracker
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kylemcdonald / ofxFaceTracker

ofxFaceTracker

CLM face tracking addon for openFrameworks based on Jason Saragih's FaceTracker.

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3Mentions
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1.4KGitHub stars
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CLM face tracking addon for openFrameworks based on Jason Saragih's FaceTracker.

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Observed mentions: 2011-09-21 18:10:42 UTC to 2011-09-21 20:10:23 UTC.

0122011-09-21 18:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-21 19:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsSep 21, 18:002011-09-21 19:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-21 20:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsSep 21, 19:002011-09-21 20:00:00 UTC to 2011-09-21 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 21, 20:00

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Sep 21, 18:002011-09-21 18:00:00 UTC2011-09-21 19:00:00 UTC202
Sep 21, 19:002011-09-21 19:00:00 UTC2011-09-21 20:00:00 UTC000
Sep 21, 20:002011-09-21 20:00:00 UTC2011-09-21 21:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Kyle McDonald discusses this: "I imagine FaceOSC being used to prototype ideas surrounding face-based interaction. I created it because Jason Saragih, the researcher behind FaceTracker, uses an open source non-commercial license for his code. He asks that anyone who wants to use the code email him directly, as a way to keep track of the usage. This is great, but I know that one of the fastest ways to get cool stuff happening is to make new tools and research accessible to a wide audience. So I asked him if it would be ok to make a standalone app for people to prototype their ideas — even if they don't have access to the code. Everyone already 'speaks' OSC so I thought this would be the easiest way to get the technology out there. Eventually, if people need to integrate it into a single application, they can contact Jason directly and use
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my ofxFaceTracker addon to get started: https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker And if they need to go the commercial route, there’s FaceAPI http://www.seeingmachines.com/product/faceapi/ " Source: http://electronica.fm/news/110714/music-your-face-artist-kyl...
In Very cool, but very creepy, open source project
Made with: 1. OpenCV 2.0 - C++, C, Python interfaces; BSD license - http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/ 2. FaceTracker - C/C++ API; "research purposes only", to download email Jason.saragih@csiro.au - http://web.mac.com/jsaragih/FaceTracker/FaceTracker.html 3. Method Art Image Clone - realtime cloning library (from gts, glew, glib); MIT license - http://methodart.blogspot.com/2011/07/fast-image-cloning-lib... 4. openFrameworks - C++ toolkit; MIT license - https://github.com/openframeworks/openFrameworks 5. FaceOSC (ofxFaceTracker) - active appearance model addon for openFrameworks; "open source" - https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker
In Very cool, but very creepy, open source project

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