Face Recognition using Kinect

Question

I went through the Kinect SDK and Toolkit provided by Microsoft. Tested the Face Detection Sample, it worked successfully. But, how to recognize the faces ? I know the basics of OpenCV (VS2010). Is there any Kinect Libraries for face recognition? if no, what are the possible solutions? Are there, any tutorials available for face recognition using Kinect?

Answer 1

I've been working on this myself. At first I just used the Kinect as a webcam and passed the data into a recognizer modeled after this code (which uses Emgu CV to do PCA):

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/239849/Multiple-face-detection-and-recognition-in-real-ti

While that worked OK, I thought I could do better since the Kinect has such awesome face tracking. I ended up using the Kinect to find the face boundaries, crop it, and pass it into that library for recognition. I've cleaned up the code and put it out on github, hopefully it'll help someone else:

https://github.com/mrosack/Sacknet.KinectFacialRecognition