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Programming using the Ultra Hal Brain Editor / Webcam Face Recognition
« on: January 03, 2006, 12:42:21 pm »
I stumbled across this open source project and thought I'd post it here for those that may be interested. The project makes it possible to recognize faces using a webcam. It has the ability to learn people's faces and identify them uniquely. The project appears to have been spawned in hopes of creating a face recognition security program but the technology isn't well suited for recognizing a specific individual within a database containing a large number of people. The more people it attempts to recognize the smaller the average differences between individuals becomes and would require high resolution pictures to pick out the small differences. Lighting conditions, shadows, and the poor quality of most web cams and security cameras also adds to the complication and confusion. However, with a relatively small database consisting of a small group of people it has proven to perform well, and should be especially true when using a web cam in a confined and controlled environment, such as when sitting directly in front of your computer and web cam, and possibly even from a short distances in the confines of a small well lighted room.
Possibly some of the more advanced programmers and Hal experts will have a look and play around with it and maybe eventually come up with a means to incorporate it with Hal. I think a feature like this would enhance Hal's abilities and functionality as an AI program.
http://www.fuzzgun.btinternet.co.uk/rodney/facerecognition.htm
Possibly some of the more advanced programmers and Hal experts will have a look and play around with it and maybe eventually come up with a means to incorporate it with Hal. I think a feature like this would enhance Hal's abilities and functionality as an AI program.
http://www.fuzzgun.btinternet.co.uk/rodney/facerecognition.htm