A fork of the pure-javascript face detection in Liu Liu's CCV library (in branch 'current'), converted for Node and npm. Updated Dependencies to work with the newest canvas version

This package provides the method detect_objects, to which you pass a parameters hash. The most important parameter is the canvas obj, into which you should have already loaded an image.

This method returns an array of hashes, each representing a face, with the following fields:

• x, y : the coordinates of the top-left corner of the face's bounding box
• width, height : the pixel dimensions of the face's bounding box
• neighbours, confidence : info from the detection algorithm

var face_detect = require('face-detect'),
    Canvas = require('canvas');

// ... initialize a canvas object ...

var result = face_detect.detect_objects({ "canvas" : myCanvas,
  "interval" : 5,
  "min_neighbors" : 1 });

console.log('Found ' + result.length  + ' faces.');

for (var i = 0; i < result.length; i++){
  var face =  result[i];
  console.log(face);
}

in future, directly passing an image path or a buffer containing raw png data will be supported

It's important to note that this is not my work. All credit for the actual face-detection work should go to Liu Liu.

I have just taken the browser JS from that project (in branch current ), plucked out the threading support and made it useable with node & npm via node-canvas

This project is installed with npm.

$cd my-project
$ npm install face-detect

$ git clone https://[email protected]/orls/ccv-purejs.git face-detect
$ cd face-detect
$ npm install
$ cd ../my-project
$ npm install ../face-detect