paulhayes/copterface

Created during a nodecopter hackday in Brighton. The example script attempts to position an ar-drone so that it centers on any face detected in the center of it's field of vision. EXPERIMENTAL.

Copterface

Facial recognition for Parrot AR Drone 2.0

Installing

npm install copterface

or checkout from github

git clone git@github.com:paulhayes/copterface.git

Running Example

node node_modules/copterface/example.js

Using the library

Add it to your node project

npm install copterface --save

Here's a simple example, showing how you can use copterface

const client = arDrone.createClient({imageSize:"160x90"});
const pngStream = client.getPngStream();
var copterface = new Copterface(pngStream,{},function(info){
    console.log(info);
});

copterface.start();

CopterFace(pngStream,options,callback)

options an object with the following optional key/value pairs :

• outputImage ( boolean ), whether to generate a debug png and include in the info object passed to callback.

callback an function that recieves the info object :

• info.rects an array of normalized rects for each face identifed
• info.image included if the outputImage flag is set to true. This is a PNG object that has had it's pack method called and will be emitting 'data' and 'end' events.