faceAPI

faceAPI from SeeingMachines

The non-commercial API from SeeingMachines was the big stimulator for us to create FaceTrackNoIR in the first place. Tracking facial features instead of IR-leds offers a great advantage: no hardware but a simple web-cam is required! The faceAPI tracker works very well for many users. Unfortunately, there are limitations to the non-commercial version too and both lighting and web-cam need to be good.

Settings

The engine status displays the current status of the faceAPI engine and can be one of the following:

• TERMINATED: The engine is not yet created or has been destroyed (no resources allocated)
• INVALID: The engine is in an invalid state and cannot be used.
• IDLE: The engine exists but processing is inactive (not tracking).
• INITIALIZING: The head-tracking engine is trying to acquire a new face.
• TRACKING: The head-tracking engine is tracking a face.
• SEARCHING: The head-tracking engine is searching for an existing face.

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