Face Detection and other Vision Processing (and some sample code)

[Chris Hager]

Nirav Patel wrote:
> I've been playing with vision processing stuff for the XO, mostly
> using OpenCV.  I have some sample code up at
> http://eclecti.cc/code/face-detection-on-the-olpc-xo that does face
> detection surprisingly quickly.  It seems that the bottleneck isn't
> even the OpenCV Haar Cascade algorithm, but the time it takes to
> initialize the v4l2 drivers.

Wow - this is amazing! And especially with this speed of ~0.25 seconds 
for finding a face! How are you accessing OpenCV - via SWIG or CTypes?

I'd suggest to create [[OpenCV]] and start linking to infos, howto's and 
examples. That will make life much easier for all who want to play 
around with image recognition on the xo in the future.

- Chris