[RFC PATCH v1 0/7] media&omap4: introduce face detection(FD) driver

[Ming Lei]

Hi,

On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Sylwester Nawrocki <snjw23 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Ming,
>
> On 12/02/2011 10:12 AM, Ming Lei wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> These v1 patches(against -next tree) introduce v4l2 based face
>> detection(FD) device driver, and enable FD hardware[1] on omap4 SoC..
>> The idea of implementing it on v4l2 is from from Alan Cox, Sylwester
>> and Greg-Kh.
>>
>> For verification purpose, I write one user space utility[2] to
>> test the module and driver, follows its basic functions:
>>
>>       - detect faces in input grayscal picture(PGM raw, 320 by 240)
>>       - detect faces in input y8 format video stream
>>       - plot a rectangle to mark the detected faces, and save it as
>>       another same format picture or video stream
>>
>> Looks the performance of the module is not bad, see some detection
>> results on the link[3][4].
>>
>> Face detection can be used to implement some interesting applications
>> (camera, face unlock, baby monitor, ...).
>>
>> TODO:
>>       - implement FD setting interfaces with v4l2 controls or
>>       ext controls
>>
>> thanks,
>> --
>> Ming Lei
>>
>> [1], Ch9 of OMAP4 Technical Reference Manual
>> [2], http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ming/fdif.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/v4l2-fdif
>> [3], http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ming/dev/fdif/output
>> [4], All pictures are taken from http://www.google.com/imghp
>> and converted to pnm from jpeg format, only for test purpose.
>>
>
> Could you please resend this series to Linux Media mailing list
> (linux-media at vger.kernel.org) ? It touches V4L core code and I'm

Yes, I will resend this series to linux-media mail list, thanks for pointing
it out.  Of course, the most important mail list is missed for the patches,
very sorry about it.

thanks,
--
Ming Lei