tracking
Silly webcam motion tracking thingy
I was cycling home today and had a bit of a random idea on how it would be funny to track motion using the webcam and use that to move a set of eyes around. As if the person on screen could actually see you.
Anywaysss, quick half hour later and you can see the result below. Download the source if you like. Have fun playing!
Move from left to right. Or just sit still and move your left hand or right hand. You’ll figure it out.
Colour tracking with the webcam in Flash
Something I wanted to do for a while. Track a colour using your webcam in Flash. I draw the webcam into Bitmapadata so I can play around with it. If you take the getColorBoundsRect straight from the raw bitmapdata it will be very hard to get something useful as you just have to many single pixels and colours to analise. So I implement a little trick that makes it better to analise. First I blur the video so it smooths the colours. Then I turn it into a 8 channel image.
After that I just layer a fresh video feed that isnt distorted on top and start drawing based on the colour and position.
Enjoy! You can grab the source here if you want.
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.