Ez-face

Hi, how to stop the script when a face is detected? Thanks

I'll be posting some of my script examples soon with a few features you can all build on.

If you want the script to stop on face detect, either replace the Say("hello" + $facename) line with Halt() or just add a Halt() after the line.

The thing to remember here is you have free reign with what this app does. The Example Project supplied with it only does one thing. It would be impossible to cover everything that can be done. There is so much that can be done from the $FaceName variable.

friends.. 2 questions. How do I setup ARC AND Ez-face to share the same camera ?! My robot uses one single camera tha I would like to keep doing the tracking job, and the recognition too... At this point, I was only able to make one works, if I disable the other...

And, How do I setup the Ez-Face to automatically RUN AND CONNECT , after load when I turn the robot on (it uses an onboard ITX computer) ?

That's because the robot is set to load, and connect ARC at the windows start up..

THANKS!

You can't use the same camera on two applications, this is not a limitation to EZ-Face only.

I did offer a suggestion to Justin a few days ago about using the HTTP server control and grabbing the image however it is a static image not a video feed so I am guessing he is still working on that for a possible future upgrade.

You can have EZ-Face start automatically a few ways. I would suggest using ARC to start it within an init script.

Exec()

Which, if installed in the default location should be;

Exec("C:\BotBrain\EZ-Face\bin\Debug\MultiFaceRec.exe")

@Rich, thank you it works. And thank you a thousand times @JustinRatliff. It's really great

@Rich is right, the including EX-Builder script is just a basic example of passing a variable from EZ-Face to ARC. I'm looking forward to seeing the scripts Rich produces to make a more robust script.

@tevans Single camera usage is something I am working on. The new functionality will allow you to call up EZ-Face to run on demand (open, use the camera, release the camera and close) and you can call it up as often you like. That functionality is not included in the first version.

@Rich EZ-Face is built on the EMGU CV framework. The problem with the HTTP server function in ARC is it provides an HTTP IP address for a camera image (static is currently the only option from ARC, but that is not the main issue). The problem is two fold. One there is not a "clean" way for EMGU to accept HTTP IP addresses as a camera feed. From everything I have seen it really seems designed to pull only from traditional capture device. The examples I have seen for IP address video feeds have included 3rd party support files that must be purchased (no open source solutions).

One way to get around all this is to use what is in ARC already, which is the picture snapshot function. Have a script look for a face in ARC, take a snap shot or two, send a variable to EZ-Face, EZ-Face would look for new pictures, run recognition, store faces to variable, send variable to ARC where ARC could do the needful. But the EMGU functionality utilized in EZ-Face is designed for video, not pictures. So adding that functionality is not straight forward and I anticipate that requiring a fair amount of work.

However, if ARC had an option to export a video clip - that functionality I could add to EZ-Face without much effort. @DJSures - do you guys have adding video clip output on your radar by any chance?

Here are a few different quick examples. I haven't had much time to play with it yet but these should be a starter for you to use and adapt to suit your requirements...

Greet user only on change of user while ignoring no recognition/non detection.

# Make sure the variable exists and is reset
$FaceName = "null"
$user0 = "null"
$user1 = "null"

# Make an endless loop
:loop

# Wait until the variable changes
WaitForChange($FaceName)

# Check facename isn't blank
IF ($FaceName != "")
  $user1 = $user0
  $user0 = $FaceName

  # Check detected face is different from previously detected
  IF($user0 != $user1)
    # Script commands to be run on change of facename variable
    Say("Hello " + $user0)
  EndIf

EndIf

# Loop back to the start
Goto(loop)

Enable/Disable Speech Recognition on detected user (note: change "Rich," to the user you want)

# Make sure the variable exists and is reset
$FaceName = "null"
$user0 = "null"
$user1 = "null"

# Make an endless loop
:loop

# Wait until the variable changes
WaitForChange($FaceName)

# Check facename isn't blank
IF ($FaceName != "")
  $user1 = $user0
  $user0 = $FaceName

  # Check detected face is different from previously detected
  IF($user0 != $user1)
    # Script commands to be run on change of facename variable
    Say("Hello " + $user0)
  EndIf

EndIf

# Enable Speech Recognition control only if user is Rich
IF ($user0 != "Rich,")
  # If user isn't Rich pause the speech recognition
  ControlCommand("Speech Recognition", PauseOn)
Else
  # Otherwise unpause speech recognition
  ControlCommand("Speech Recognition", PauseOff)
EndIf

# Loop back to the start
Goto(loop)

When I have more time I will do a few more based on ideas I have. If you have ideas but no clue on how to make it work post the idea and I'll see what I can do

So I am not able to get this working on my end. Not quite sure what I'm missing. I pressed the start button and nothing is happening? Im sure there is more to this than what I am doing. Anyone willing to take a stab at directing me? Thanks Chris