{"id":374,"date":"2015-05-10T15:44:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-10T19:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2015-05-10T15:44:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T19:44:25","slug":"the-new-face-tracker-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/the-new-face-tracker-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Face Tracker is Here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been hard at work getting the face tracking system ported over to the Raspberry Pi 2 in an organized fashion, and I am definitely just about there.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a teaser video showing off\u00a0the simplest working version.<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O-QaA7QG0g0?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I even put forth the initial efforts towards a full fledged C++ API! I now have PWM and Servo control very well supported for the PiSoC so that it can be very easily embedded into your C++ programs.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the tracking system shown in the video is\u00a0<em>pretty<\/em> good, but I&#8217;m still working on it. I am getting about 10fps capturing at 960&#215;720 in full color for face detection. But you might notice I am only getting about 25% usage out of the cpu! That&#8217;s where the four cores of the new Raspberry Pi2 come in- I am only pushing one core to its limits, I need more!<\/p>\n<p>So with a little extra work this morning dedicated to multithreading the detection and capture processes, I have already nearly doubled the performance.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been hard at work getting the face tracking system ported over to the Raspberry Pi 2 in an organized fashion, and I am definitely just about there. Here is a teaser video showing off\u00a0the simplest working version. I even put forth the initial efforts towards a full fledged C++ API! I now have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/embeditelectronics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}