I recently stumbled up a code library named "marilena" that allows me to use basic face tracking in Flash. Here you can see a first, quick demo, which obviously has to be improved a lot, but it works fine as a proof of concept. Tracking the head's rotation or the correct position of the eyes isn't supported yet, which would be a next step for me, towards an improved version of this experiment.

Related Link:
http://www.jensfischer.us/demos/faceTracking/



8 Responses to “Face Tracking in Flash”

  1. Janu:
    February 7th, 2009 at 12:37 pm

    Is it possible to get the source code?

  2. Jens:
    February 7th, 2009 at 2:48 pm

    The face tracking library is open source and its svn repository which includes an example can be found here: http://www.libspark.org/svn/as3/Marilena/ …

  3. Michael - I like to play:
    February 8th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

    Really cool, works much more precise than I thought :-)

  4. daniel:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 pm

    I’m an artist and I want to use this for a project. Are you available to help?
    also does this work on macs?

  5. Jens:
    March 3rd, 2009 at 2:09 pm

    It works on any system, that you can install the Adobe Flash player on (Windows, Mac OS 9/X, Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, Pocket PC, OS/2, QNX, Symbian, Palm OS, BeOS, and IRIX). Simply clicking the link above on a Mac would have proven that as well.

    To answer the other part of your question: I’m not available for freelance work at the moment.

  6. Petit:
    August 1st, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    Hi,
    good work you do!
    Here, the face tracking link seems lost in 404 space.
    Just thought you’d want to know.
    Nice site as well - thanks!

  7. Jens:
    August 1st, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    Thanks for pointing that out. Will fix it asap.

  8. Daniel:
    November 10th, 2009 at 12:44 pm

    Any luck with tracking the head’s rotation?

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