On iOS 5 you can use CoreImage (CIDetector, CIFeature, CIFaceFeature should be named as the relevant keywords) for that task. Check out the SquareCam example App from Apple, it includes face detection. If you’re targeting older iOS versions, openCV seems to be a good approach. http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/SquareCam/Introduction/Intro.html Edit_: Argh, soory. CoreImage can only detect faces but … Read more
Update The following article was written by Petter Christian Bjelland, so all credit is his. I am posting it here, because his blog seems to be in Maintenance mode at the moment, but I think it is worth sharing. Doing face recognition with JavaCV (from http://pcbje.com) I couldn’t find any tutorial on how to perform … Read more
Here are some links that I found on face recognition libraries. Android’s FaceDetector.Face Tutorial: Implementing Face Detection in Android OpenCV Facerecog Image Identification links: Moodstocks Ltutech
Try FaceDetector in the Android SDK. It returns face positions and angles in BMPs. But it’s not very fast. Here’s a realtime face detection sample using FaceDetector and OpenGL (draws rectangles) which works in Android 2.2. OpenCV in Android You’d better try this on Linux (I’ve tried it on Windows, but failed). JavaCV (strongly recommended) … Read more
Here is a list of commercial vendors that provide off-the-shelf packages for facial recognition which run on Windows: Cybula – Information on their Facial Recognition SDK. This is a company founded by a University Professor and as such their website looks unprofessional. There’s no pricing information or demo that you can download. You’ll need to … Read more