Face recognition using android sdk not opencv

Question

I am currently work on face recognition in android. I spent reasonable time on internet and I found FaceDetector.Face class in Android. And these are the utilities of this c

Answer 1

As Tushar said, the FaceDetector only detects the faces. You can't recognize them using FaceDetector though. The eye distance output is measured in pixels, not in cm or inches. It represents how big the face is inside the bitmap image. The euler angles are supposed to represent the 3D rotation of the head. However, if your app uses any api before 14, the euler angles values will always be 0.0 (they are not computed). So, take care with this.

If you want to do face recognition, you can use opencv. I haven't used it myself, but I think it is available on Android. Face Recognition in OpenCV http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/modules/contrib/doc/facerec/

If you don't want or can't add OpenCV to your project, you can program the face recognition by yourself. It take some time, but it's not so hard. You can implement some variation of eigenfaces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYgBqJorF44&list=PLd3hlSJsX_Imk_BPmB_H3AQjFKZS9XgZm&index=16

Good luck!