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Face recognition via webcam images demo
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Just a simple script bringing together a number of techniques, files, tips etc from all over.

References:

Haar trained XML tree maps from here:
http://tutorial-haartraining.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/data/haarcascades/

Eye Cascade:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~shameem/haarcascade_eye.html

Hand Cascade:
http://code.google.com/p/ehci/wiki/HandTracking

OpenCV python cheatsheet:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/PythonInterface

Rough detect-faces code from here:
http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/face-detection-in-static-images-with-python/

And PyGame is just a handy dandy toolset that I've used a number of times in the past. (I tend to use Processing when interacting with things in C)

Dependancies
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sudo apt-get install python-opencv python-pygame python-imaging

(SWIG-based bindings for OpenCV, PyGame and PIL - the python Imaging library)

Running
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Running the code unaltered will run the face detection algorithm on the demo.jpg file
and use the pygame loop to display it in a window.

python pygame_face.py

To see the webcam demo, make sure your webcam is detected under linux and then alter the section of the pygame_face.py file where it says # UNCOMMENT [...] and run it again.