Android face detector using android camera

Question

I've read its possible to use the built in android face detector to find the position of faces in a bitmap. Does anyone know of any examples of doing this using the camera as an input?

Answer 1

Its possible with the Face Detection APIs in ICS. Refer the camera section on this page: http://developer.android.com/sdk/android-4.0.html

You must register a FaceDetectionListener and then call camera.startFaceDetection(). Please read the link above for more details.

I wrote some sample code. It isn't perfect since its Work In Progress but the face detection bit works just fine:

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2Nu5U2Cz81qZExGQ25sWVdRd21IOExUUTZsZzFoZw