recognizing facial expressions using Kinect SDK

Question

I am trying to do some work using Kinect and the Kinect SDK.

I was wondering whether it is possible to detect facial expressions (e.g. wink, smile etc) using the Kinect SDK Or, getting raw data that can help in recognizing these.

Can anyone kindly suggest any links for this ? Thanks.

Answer 1

I am also working on this and i considered 2 options:

1. Face.com API:

   there is a C# client library and there are a lot of examples in their documentation

2. EmguCV

   This guy Talks about the basic face detection using EmguCV and Kinect SDK and you can use this to recognize faces

Presently i stopped developing this but if you complete this please post a link to your code.

Answer 2

This is currently not featured within the Kinect for Windows SDK due to the limitations of Kinect in producing high-resolution images. That being said, libraries such as OpenCV and AForge.NET have been sucessfuly used to detected finger and facial recognition from both the raw images that are returned from Kinect, and also RGB video streams from web cams. I would use this computer vision libraries are a starting point.