Face Detector

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Face Detector

A way of locating faces in an image taken by mobile devices.

Develop innovative mobile applications that require face location information as input with the Face Detector Java ME™ components.

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Why Face Detector?

Mobile devices are equipped with cameras nowadays. They are sources of images.

Demands on automatically obtaining face location info are thus increasing.

Simple API that are developed specifically for mobiles.

Face Detector from Ericsson Labs provides the ability of automatically getting face locations in an image for mobile applications.

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Main Features of Face Detector

Automatically detect faces and return their locations.

Detected faces can easily be reused for further processing purposes.

Ease of Use.

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Face Detector Overview

Application

specific code

Face Detector

JavaME Library

Mobile Application

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// init a FaceDetector

faceDetector = new FaceDetector();

// feeds input image srcImage into faceDetector

faceDetector.setFaceDetector(srcImage);

// sets the user interface for face detection

faceDetector.setDisplayImageUI(this);

// to see if there are faces in the image

faceDetector.detectFace();

// gets result from faceDetector and stores it in a Vector

faceVector = faceDetector.getResult();

Face Detector API

Java ME library that is easily included in any mobile application.

Supports many phones (should work on most devices with Java MIDP 2.0 & CLDC 1.1)

The library provides the functionality of obtaining face location information in an image.

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