Chapter 7. Security Camera with Face Recognition
InChapter 3, A Social and Personal Digital Photo Frame, you learned how to build a multimedia application, which is a digital photo frame based on the Raspberry Pi. Now you're going to take a major step forward, by building a real-time video processing application, which is a security camera with face recognition. Face recognition is a revolutionary technology and it can be used in a wide range of applications such as:
- People tagging in photos
- Gaming
- Price comparison
- Making mental notes
- Identifying TV shows
- Augmented reality
- Image searching
- Solving sudoku puzzles
- Security
Besides providing security through camera-based applications at both day and night, by displaying videos on a screen or recording video using a hard disk, face detection can be used to identify human faces among moving objects (people, animals, vehicles, and so on) within the field of view of the camera. It's time to build a security camera with human face detection.
In this chapter...