Any interest for a face recognition plugin?

[spud]

I'm working on a face recognition plugin for HS3, and would like to know if there is a lot of interest for such a thing?

The plugin would work with most of webcams (and probably netcams too). It would take some pictures of the person you want to be recognized and use them to train the recognizer algorithm.
Then it would create one device for each person and set the value of this device to "Present" as soon as one person is recognized.

[rmasonjr]

Years ago, I saw a video of a guy that built a pet detector and would only unlock the pet door if the profile of the cat was detected. The idea was that a skunk or possum's profile would be different from his cat. It was very interesting.

Would you be using an IP camera's snapshot feature to capture the face?

[mrhappy]

It would interest me if I could integrate it into a future install but I would need to think how I could get a camera into a position for as soon as I walked in the door to recognise me and then trigger events. I have used similar applications at work (I think it was something to do with the distance between the eyes our application used to recognise faces) but accuracy was always a bit suspect.

[TechHA]

Years ago there was talk about a facial recognition plug-in but the developer never came through and just disappeared.

Always wanted to try something like this. Looking forward to it.

[kideon]

will it work with Kinect?

[spud]

will it work with Kinect?

yes I will make sure it works with the kinect camera

[gearyt]

Kool... I already have camera's in place
but.. can it use my feed ???/

[spud]

Kool... I already have camera's in place
but.. can it use my feed ???/

right now I'm testing it on a USB webcam plug into my HS machine, but ultimately I would like to make it work with any camera feed.

[S-F]

I would appreciate this immensely! A combination of this and the elusive UltraSightHound plugin would revolutionize my home automation.

[gearyt]

right now I'm testing it on a USB webcam plug into my HS machine, but ultimately I would like to make it work with any camera feed.

Let me know when you are ready, I will get you in like last time

[kideon]

UltraSightHound plugin?

[S-F]

UltraSightHound plugin?

http://board.homeseer.com/showthread.php?t=169683

If you find it interesting please comment and maybe he'll be more motivated to work on it!

[alphatech]

Definitely interested, there is an immense value if this plugin is successful.

[TomTom]

+1


Tom

[fran_joel]

I think such a plug-in would be very interesting, as long as it has good performance.

For purposes related to FR, I presently use facial recognition hardware. It works very well but :

A- it is more expensive (200-300) per hardware unit.
B- it is not as flexible as a plug-in could be.
C- It is basically ON-OFF because, in my current setup, it doesn't speak to my HS Server to tell it which user it is recognizing.

On the upside, the hardware deals surprisingly well with different lighting conditions and partial facial changes such as beard vs no beard, glasses vs no glasses, hat vs no hat, etc. The hardware is also difficult to fool and has virtually no false positives...