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Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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It's not just the algorithm, the whole detection code is just cutpasted from liu liu's repository. https://github.com/liuliu/ccv/blob/stable/js/ccv.js

So what did this new library do other than wrap this algorithm with a redundant jQuery plugin?

It adds boxes to the DOM. Seriously, that's about it.

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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how much of your donations are going to Liu Liu, the original author of the hard part of this piece?

Totally agree, if I'm not wrong Jay just packed the Liu Liu code into a jQuery plugin, right?

Seems that way to me, really trivial to be asking for donations and not giving the majority of them to Liu Liu. So sad to see a fellow developer taking someone else's hard work and trying to piggy back off it to make money.

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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The author credits Liu Liu for the algorithm

I'd like to know how much of the donations he "credits" to Liu Liu. Hate shameless requests for donations on top of very little work without fairly sharing the money!

Well, he credited the author, built a plugin around it, developed and designed a website so more people could use it.

Plus, he only recommends a $3.00 donation, and what indication do you have that he isn't sharing the money?

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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Totally agree, if I'm not wrong Jay just packed the Liu Liu code into a jQuery plugin, right?

Seems that way to me, really trivial to be asking for donations and not giving the majority of them to Liu Liu. So sad to see a fellow developer taking someone else's hard work and trying to piggy back off it to make money.

That's quite an accusation. We don't even know if he is or isn't handing over money to Liu Liu.

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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Seems that way to me, really trivial to be asking for donations and not giving the majority of them to Liu Liu. So sad to see a fellow developer taking someone else's hard work and trying to piggy back off it to make money.

That's quite an accusation. We don't even know if he is or isn't handing over money to Liu Liu.

it is, but the text on the site indicates that. if it was giving money to anyone else I would expect it to say so. call me cynical :)

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

#38

Would this also let me match a face?

if by match you mean whether that face is someone specific, then no. this is purely to find faces in an image, not identify who they are. i.e. it's face detection not face recognition

Is there a javascript library to do face recognition?

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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if by match you mean whether that face is someone specific, then no. this is purely to find faces in an image, not identify who they are. i.e. it's face detection not face recognition

Is there a javascript library to do face recognition?

I'm not aware of one, no. But the basis of this one was a port from openCV. You could do the same for openCV's face recognition algorithm, but I think it would be quite a bit of work.

Re: Face detection jQuery Plugin

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That's quite an accusation. We don't even know if he is or isn't handing over money to Liu Liu.

it is, but the text on the site indicates that. if it was giving money to anyone else I would expect it to say so. call me cynical :)

Let's give him the benefit of the doubt and hold onto our opinions until we know more information.
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