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I am trying to come up with some project ideas for my final year at University, and I think that I have one that would offer be a (massive) challenge, and something I could potentially make money from.

I just want to check something. Is it possible(from a photograph), to be able to determine somebodys face and the individual parts of that face - eyes, ears, nose, etc?

This will probably be via Android.

Thanks.

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stackoverflow.com/questions/953714/face-recognition-library lists some libraries you might look at for ideas. Also: Look up OpenCV and you can see how they do it in their facial recognition. Not in Java, of course - but the concepts are what matters. Definitely possible, though could be challenging for someone so old. :p – TZHX Mar 15 '11 at 10:37
Ha - you're not such a young 'un yourself ;) Thanks for the info. – Darren Young Mar 15 '11 at 10:42
Just looking at OpenCV and there is a Java wrapper for Android, so that's good then. Will start tinkering at the weekend I think. – Darren Young Mar 15 '11 at 10:45

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This is for sure possible. I saw an interesting article about using histogram pyramids for facial recognition (and other objects.) I believe they call the technique the pyramid match kernel.

Mostly this applies to parallel processing and the suggestion by TZHX seems much more fitting honestly, but there were no 'answers' so I thought I'd go ahead and post this. Not sure how much threading Android can handle.

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