Flash Facetracking kicks ass
(This is a repost from March 2009, my blog crashed in the meantime 
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Last week I noticed a couple Flash guys jumping on the face tracking code. The legendary Mario Klingemann (aka Quasimondo) did a great example and shared his source code.
I really appreciate the fact that people are sharing this source code for others to play with. Good work!
I totaly love the idea of being able to track your face with the webcam. I had a little demo working yesterday (st Patricks day) where I drop a green hat on your head. Hours of fun .
Today on the way into work I remembered the movie The Ring where peoples faces got blurred in pictures when they were about to die. So 20 minutes of playing around with Mario’s source code later and you can see the result below.
I can’t wait to spend a bit more time on this code and hopefully will be doing some client work using this technology soon. Fingers crossed.
Nice – that works quite well
Pretty scary… I like it!
Hi!
I’ve taken a look to your blog and all your experiments are very interesting. I’ve asked in many different blogs and forums but I think this is best place to do it. Im working with flash and as3, and what Id like to do is to permit user apply some basic effects to his webcam image (and maybe to the audio too) and record a little clip of that. I ve readed that is possible through saving all bitmaps as a FLV uncompressed file, and recording audio separate. Other option I thank was post apply the effects once the video has been recorded, but as far as I know to use FLV codecs Id need a license…what do you think is the better way to achieve that? Thanks a lot in advance, Jesús.
Nice work. This is the best face tracking that I’ve seen in flash. What tweaks did you to do to the face tracking code? I’d love to see the code. Thanks.