Face Tracking with Action Script 3

[icrazyhack]

Toooooooooooooooooo slow.

[piechulla1966]

@icrazyhack

Yes, that's why it's crazy to do it with AS3. An alternative is project Alchemy. But the Alchemy toolchain is quite impressive, that is to say *complex*. Normally, you'd just use native code for your OS.

[Sikeman214]

looks REALLY fustrating lol

[piechulla1966]

@Sikeman214

It's a tricky game. But completely useless, of course :-)

[JackBond1234]

It doesn't work... at all.

[piechulla1966]

Hm? This is just a demonstration without any meaningful functionality. So, I cannot figure out how it could "work" at all. What *exactly* goes wrong? Installation problems? If yes: On what kind of platform/device? Adobe Flex is so versatile, I just cannot know what you are trying to do with this humble piece of Flex code.

[JackBond1234]

I click the link and click allow and it just stays on a black screen and doesn't respond.

[piechulla1966]

AS3 is slow. So, it is not suited at all for things like facetracking. If you experience excessive processor load, this may be the cause of your problem. But I know next to nothing about the internals of the Flash Player's implementation. Please ask Adobe!

[JackBond1234]

It's not my processor; it's the program. It just doesn't get anything from my webcam. Although I know my webcam works, and I know Flash has recently detected my webcam, this program doesn't detect it.

[piechulla1966]

My first guess is that the cause it a misconfiguration of your web browser. Does any other AS3 script get access to your webcam? For example, my TestYourWebcam.swf

[JackBond1234]

@piechulla1966 I think so.

[piechulla1966]

1. Install the Flex SDK from Adobe[dot]com

2. Evaluate your installation by writing a "hello world" type of AS3 script

3. Play with the optimized sparc marilena AS3 code (download from quasimondo[dot]com)

4. Do your own personalized Marilena demonstration, make it avalaible on YouTube

5. Get my source code and debug it

6. Agree or disagree that "the purpose of computing is not answers, but insight" [Edsger Dijkstra]

7. Have a lot of fun!

[oVISIONo]

Good job Walter!

[piechulla1966]

173 seconds, OMG! Seriously, pure AS3 is very slow. There is "Project Alchemy", which promises much better performance. But the programmer's learning curve could be a problem. The Alchemy tool chain seems to be a quite complicated beast, compared to Flex SDK.

[QuotientRobotics]

Nice work.