Working with face tracking

The face tracking SDK comes with the Kinect for Windows Developer ToolKit. The Face tracking SDK detects and tracks the positions and orientations of faces and it can also animate in real time the eyebrow positions and the mouth shape .The face tracking SDK could be used in several places such as recognizing facial expressions, NUI interaction with the face, and face-related tasks.

Using the face tracking SDK we can perform the following tasks:

• Track one or more faces

• Track 100 points on a face. Following image shows 87 tracked points out of a total of 100 points:

  

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  Image courtesy of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj130970.

• Animate lips, jaw, brows, and so on

The developer toolkit installs two libraries for face tracking (compiled in 32- and 64-bit versions):

• FaceTrackData.dll

• FaceTrackLib.dll

If you are building an application using C++, you can use the libraries directly. But with a managed application, you should use the wrapper.dll, which is available as...