2012 Dan Wilcox, et al.

for the Spring 2012 IACD class at the CMU School of Art

Templates for receiving face tracking Open Sound Control messages from Kyle McDonald's FaceOSC wrapper around Jason Saragih’s FaceTracker

Download FaceOSC and get started with a template project for one of the following creative coding environments:

• Processing
  • requires the OscP5 library
• OpenFrameworks
  • currently requires OF version 007
  • make sure to copy the FaceOSCReceiver folder into the openframeworks/apps/myApps folder (it must be 3 levels deep)
• Max
  • requires the CNMAT Everything for Max package for the (OSC-route) object
• Pure Data Extended
  • requires Pd-Extended for the [OSCroute] and [udpreceive] objects (part of the mrpeach external included in Pd-Extended)

Make sure FaceOSC is running and a face is detected (face mesh is drawn). The face detection runs very slowly (0.5 fps) while searching for a face. It speeds up to around 30fps once a one is found. Also, make sure you face is evenly lit.

Further info:

• FaceOSC uses port 8338 by default for OSC communication
• the FaceOSC window size is 640 x 480