Question on Face Recognition

[rayb1]

Greetings,

I could find no other way to contact you so I hope this is the right method.

I am a novice programmer who collects pics of models from the 1980s and earlier. I saw your article on Face Recognizer with Open CV here http://docs.opencv.org/trunk/modules/contrib/doc/facerec/index.html

The link at the bottom of the page goes no where so I began to search. I can't find this software at Sourceforge either. Never the less, here is my question. I am willing to learn how to program in C++ if this software will help me name some of the unknowns I have in my collection. Basically, will the face recognition be able to help me add names to the unknowns I have. If not, then I don't want to move down this path since it is a dead end.

Here is what I was thinking. I am running Windows 7. I would have a known face folder that would contain at least one face picture of a known model (more might be better to get identification). The software would allow me to select an unknown models picture in jpg format and then compare it to the pictures in the known folder. It would then show me the unknown on the left and the potential known on the right and let me 'scroll' through the potential matches and let me select the name for the unknown. At this point, I could go to Windows explorer and rename the unknown picture or I could do the renaming within the software. Lastly, it might save time to have the data from the pictures in the known folder saved in a file to reduce the search comparison time. I see you like to use Excel files so that would be fine. Maybe it would be nice to have the capability to rebuild the known picture database as a subfunction of the software.

Is the software you have provided up to this task or am I asking for too much and getting in way above my head?

Thank you for taking the time to look at my question and thoughts.

[bytefish]

Is it really so hard to find my contact details? You are on http://github.com/bytefish and there's my mail address clearly visible. Assuming you didn't see it, there's a page with the contact details on http://bytefish.de/about/, which includes my mail address. It's clearly harder to see, but in the documentation you can find my mail address in the first line of the source code.

So please send me a mail, because I won't answer questions in the issue tracker of an unrelated repository. And just as a side note: your mail address is actually impossible to find,