6DOF Head Tracking from pkmital on Vimeo.

interfacing seeingmachines faceapi with openFrameworks to control a 3D mario avatar

This is just with the non-commercial license. The full commercial license (~$3000?) gives you access to lip/mouth tracking and eye-brows, as well as much more flexibility in how to use their api with different/multiple cameras and accessing image data.

Of course, there are other initiatives at producing similar results. Mutual information based template trackers, for instance, seem to be state-of-art. Take a look at recent work by Panin and Knoll using OpenTL:

I imagine a lot of people would like this technology.… Continue reading...

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