The Laughing Man
I’ve always wanted to play a bit with OpneCV, but never really gotten around to it. Today I decided to dust off openFrameworks (which I haven’t touched in a couple of weeks) and play around with ofxOpenCv. I had recently read an article about face detection in OpenCv, so I decided to indulge one of my Ghost in the Shell fantasies and write some code to pull the Laughing Man eye hacking thing. I used some of the code in Joshua Noble’s Programming Interactivity and ofxHaarFinder, to which I’m indebted for this little hack.
I can see some really cool uses of this in future projects, it’s a good starting point for the bartender robot we’ve been meaning to build at the robotics group. Needless to say, I will be playing with OpenCv through oF a lot more from now on.
Source and video will be up soon.
—L.