Facial Detection and Tracking

This code was created for HackISU October 2018 over the course of 36 hours from scratch. It uses OpenCV to detect a face, and an Arduino board to drive motors to move a camera to follow the face as it moves around.

DevPost
Demo Video

Authors

Created By:

Daniel Barnes
Ryan Spitz
Thaddeus Hill
Jacob Dostal

About

Parts:

1. Webcam
2. Arduino board
3. Java program
4. 2 Motors

Features:

The features of the device are to track a person's face and move the camera such that it follows them, assuming they don't move too quickly out of frame.

Libraries used:

OpenCV - Used for facial recognition
JavaFX SDK - Used for displaying camera output / UI
RXTX - Used for serializing data to send to the Arduino