Mar 9, 2009
Facial recognition meets Twitter (kind of)
Log this one in the “Totally out there” bin. Also in the “doesn’t really work, but shows off a cool notion that could probably be done if we were smarter and weren’t using an underpowered web plugin” bin. And the “Big Brother / 1984″ bin.
Inspired by the love our Augmented Reality Twitter Shirt recieved and our recent foray into face detection, we decided to put the two together. At the moment, the script doesn’t detect a specific person — that’s where the (kind of) comes into play. But imagine associating specific faces with twitter (or “face”book… …. sorry) usernames and you’ve suddenly combined the power social networking with video monitoring that would make the Brit’s CCTV system cry like it just got relegated to League Two.
Brilliant! Add a DIY photo registration component to this and you’ll have something fun to deploy at conferences, especially to show contextual info on speakers and participants over the camera/projector.
[...] So what they’ve done now is to use their face detection technique as a replacement for FLAR markers (those square tags), resulting in something that requires folks to bring nothing more than their faces… should we call this facetweets? [...]
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hey . . . brilliant thing….
you are true…
Face recognition meets Twitter is really a smart and useful thing if you know how to use….
oh really interesting…
replacement of FLAR makers with face identification technique seems interesting… lets see what happen ahead…
It’s really cool . I user the flar toolKit before , but replacing makers with face is simply wow . Is it detecting face or recognizing face ? I checked the ‘Marilena’ , its only detect face .
But anyway its great .
Hello, there, you have just the app i am looking for, can you please post your src code so we can learn and built upon it?
thanks in advance.