Face recognition in Java

Question

Can any one suggest me an open source face recognition framework in Java?

Answer 1

There are a few open-source Face Recognition Java systems you can try, but don't expect much, because I am looking for the same thing but I'm still looking for a better option!

Note that finding any face within in image is called "Face Detection", following any face is called "Face Tracking", and determining the identity of a detected face is called "Face Recognition". I'm telling you this because you probably have to use different software and algorithms to do each one! The answer by Paul tells you that OpenCV can do Face Detection easily (Haar Cascade Detector), but not Face Recognition as easily (actually it does have a way to do Eigenface Recognition), which it sounds like you need Face Recognition, so OpenCV isn't necessarily your best option since you are using Java.

You can try FAINT which does both Face Detection and Face Recognition in Java, but it is pretty much undocumented. There is also "http://darnok.org/programming/face-recognition/", but I can't seem to get good results out of it. There is also "http://uni.johnsto.co.uk/faces/" for Face Recognition, and "Neuroph" for Face Recognition / Detection.

If you find a good solution, please tell me at "[email protected]" Good Luck! Shervin Emami