Photo Booth? Esquire Mag?

[Glen]

Hi folks,

I have been looking for face tracking and hand tracking options for
Flartoolkit and came across the following link using face tracking in
a photo booth:

http://www.arvertising.com/news/2009/12/augmented-reality-photo-booth-in-vegas/

Any idea how this might have been done? Would it be proprietary
software? Any face tracking I have seen in Flash thus far has not been
able to track head tilt or rotation thus far.

What about the AR that Esquire mag features this month? Are they using
proprietary software? I don't get a pop-up window asking for access to
my web cam so I assume that it's not Flash based.

TTFN.

Glen
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[eric socolofsky]

is there something that makes you think this is flash? it's most likely something open CV-based, or some other proprietary face-tracking lib written, most likely, in C++.

dunno what software esquire is using, but since they make you download something, i'm sure it's not flash, otherwise it would run in a browser.

[Glen]

> is there something that makes you think this is flash? it's most
> likely something open CV-based, or some other proprietary face-
> tracking lib written, most likely, in C++.

I don't know if it's Flash, in fact I doubt that it is. That's why I
was asking if it's something proprietary. For this level of tracking,
is it better to look into something like C++, Java, or something else
perhaps? Is this level of tracking non-existent for Flash based
solutions?

> dunno what software esquire is using, but since they make you
> download something, i'm sure it's not flash, otherwise it would run
> in a browser.

I'm sure it's not Flash either, mainly because it doesn't present the
web cam access permission window like Flash does.

[eric socolofsky]

well, flash is slow. C++ is much much faster. face tracking libs that run at any decent speed are a) most likely the kind of thing developed by lower-level coders, who tend not to focus on flash development, and b) require too much CPU for flash player to handle them.

re: why i think esquire isn't using flash, if it's flash, why would they make you download something instead of just running in the browser? that's the whole point of FLARToolkit, it runs in a browser.... also, not sure about this, but i'm not sure you need to give permission to the mic/cam in an AIR app, so i'm not sure your supposition that it's not flash because there's no cam access dialog is correct. but, i'm not sure i'm correct either.

-e

On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:52 AM, Glen wrote:

>> is there something that makes you think this is flash? it's most likely something open CV-based, or some other proprietary face-tracking lib written, most likely, in C++.