You Are the Son Of Man
By Mike Cohen on Day 1, March 2010
According to ITPedia, my Day 1 project was “something with CV.” Â And that is what I did. Â My first idea was to make a yawn tracker, so it was time to hit up the code.
Having never done anything with computer vision before, I didn’t know exactly where to start. Â I figured I’d start with Jitter. Â I downloaded the cv.jit library and started messing with face and blob detection. Â Face detection was easy…trying to find an open mouth…not so much.
After much toiling, I decided to try something a little more ridiculous and fun. I decided I’d superimpose things on faces. In particular, I thought it would be fun and ridiculous to turn people into the famous man in the Magritte painting, “The Son Of Man.”
Deciding that Processing is more my speed, I started using the OpenCV library. This turned out to be much easier for me to handle.
Here’s some results:
Kind of ridiculous, mostly fun.
March 14th, 2010
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Add your own1. Steven Lehrburger | March 14th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
omg this is awesome. i love magritte, i was the man in the painting for halloween, abd still have the bowler and some decorative apples on a shelf in my room.
also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vr2vA88rHj0 is one of my favorite movie scenes ever. (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)
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