[Digikam-devel] GSoC Introduction: Aniket Handa

[Francesco Riosa]

Out of interest, do you know of algorithms able to extract facial 
expressions #1 ?

#1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_Action_Coding_System

Il 17/03/2012 18:12, Ananta Palani ha scritto:
> Hi Aniket,
>
> I'm not in charge of this particular area of digiKam, but here are some
> links you can start looking into to get familiar with using OpenCV and
> performing facial recognition, as well as descriptions and papers for
> various algorithms. The current algorithm (eigenfaces) used in digiKam
> would not be very good with real-world images (even if it worked
> properly). One of the best (if not the best) algorithm available would
> be the Fisherfaces or Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) method. You can
> read a nice summary and analysis here:
>
> http://www.bytefish.de/blog/fisherfaces
>
> Here are some good summaries of various algorithms that are available
> for further comparison:
>
> http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceRecognition
> http://www.face-rec.org/algorithms/
>
> I believe you have to apply and be accepted to the GSoC program before
> you can actually be work on GSoC projects, but someone else will
> probably contact you about that (or info might be on the GSoC website?).
>
> Best,
> -Ananta
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Aniket Handa <atneik at gmail.com
> <mailto:atneik at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello there,
>
>     My name is Aniket Handa, currently enrolled in Jaypee Institute of
>     Information Technology, Noida, INDIA pursing B.Tech-M.Tech Dual
>     program in Computer Science & Engineering. My interests range from
>     Computer Vision, Computer Graphics to developing Android Apps. I am a
>     firm believer of FOSS.
>
>     I am particularly interested in "Facial Recognition" partially due to
>     its high demand (Bug 271679: 492 votes) and partially due to my
>     interests in vision. I saw that this Idea was also in GSoC 2010, so
>     that puts up questions like: was it taken by some student? If so, were
>     there some problems?
>
>     I am currently looking more about the project and will get back to you
>     soon. Looking forward for being a valuable part of the community.
>
>     Regards,
>     Aniket