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Project Description:

Real time face tracking and recognition refers to the task of locating human faces in a video stream and identifying the faces by matching them against the database of known faces. There are two novel techniques that are being tested in RTFTR:

1. Study the effect of using two or more face extraction/recognition algorithms, in parallel, on overall accuracy of tracking/recognition task
2. Use High Performance Distributed Computing ( using OpenMPI and OpenMP ) to achieve real time capability for tracking/recognition task

We are applying a modular approach to development of face recognition systems which allows users to form a custom processing pathway for the task of face extraction/recognition. A flexible 6 stage processing pathway is being used in RTFTR. Two stages are dedicated for the task of face extraction and recognition. RTFTR will have option to chose from a wide variety of sources (like a CCD camera, video sequence, images, etc).

We are implementing the following four algorithms (two for each face extraction/recognition task) :

• Face Extraction
• Neural Network Based face Detection (rowleynn)
• AdaBoost Algorithm and Cascaded Detector (adaboost)
• Face Recognition
• Subspace Linear Discriminant Analysis (lda)
• Face Recognition using Gabor Wavelet Transform (kepenekci)

Project News:

• May 11, 2012 - media coverage of OSCN - 2009: EU Article; Kantipur TV OSCN Grand Finale Coverage; TV Advertisement
• Dec. 18, 2010 - added demo videos in youtube and developers' photo
• Nov. 08, 2010 - added screenshots
• Jul. 06, 2010 - RTFTR has been downloaded 3,638 times from 83 countries. It is an amazing experience for RTFTR team to see these download statistics.
• Aug. 08, 2009 - we won the second prize during the grand finale of OSCN-2009. Some photos
• Jul. 16, 2009 - delivered presentation and demonstrated to OSCN-2009 evaluators. final presentation for OSCN-2009 on Aug. 08, 2009
• Jul. 14, 2009 - added FAQ page
• Jul. 01, 2009 - rtftr-0.2rc2 released(some bug fixes)
• Jun. 28, 2009 - rtftr-0.2rc1 released and submitted to OSCN-2009.
• Mar. 25, 2009 - Final year project presentation and demonstration in Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering, IOE-Pulchowk Campus, was completed.
• Mar. 08, 2009 - Mid term presentation ( slides pdf ) and demonstration of rtftr was done.
• Feb. 19, 2009 - RTFTR project registered for OSC - 2009 ( osc-2009 proposal )
• Aug. 08, 2008 - Project proposal was submitted

Documents:

• OSCN-2009:
  • OSCN Final Presentation (Aug. 08, 2009) : Final Presentation (odp zip, pdf) | Demonstration video used during presentation ( ogv, avi )
  • Pre-Final Presentation (Jul. 16, 2009) : Pre-Final Presentation
  • Documents : final project report | proposal
  • Demonstration Video: ogv (59MB) | avi (25.7MB) | YT
  • Installation Manual: FC10 installation howto (txt) | Ubuntu 9.04 installation howto (txt)
  • Installation Videos: avi (108MB) (screencast demonstrating the installation of rtftr in Fedora Core 10)
• Final year project : report | presentation | demo video
• Mid term presentation
• Open Software Challenge (OSC) 2009 proposal

Demo Videos:

Developers:

Abhishek Dutta

Anjan Nepal

Bibek Shrestha

Lakesh Kansakar

(Left to Right): Lakesh, Bibek, Anjan, Abhishek (Sep. 10, 2008)