CIDetector and UIImagePickerController

Question

I\'m trying to implement the built-in iOS 5 face detection API. I\'m using an instance of UIImagePickerController to allow the user to take a photo and then I\'

Answer 1

I had a similar problem - the face detector was working in orientations that didn't match the image orientation property. iOS face detector orientation and setting of CIImage orientation

a quick work around that I found to help with that is to disregard the image orientation all together and "flatten" the image (so that there is no image orientation data)

I used this code:

http://blog.logichigh.com/2008/06/05/uiimage-fix/

and sure enough looks like it is working much better for front camera pics. I haven't tried enough on landscape to tell if it has helped there but looks promising