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Implementation of a flexible face-recognition pipeline,
including pluggable detectors, aligners, feature extractors
and recognisers.
/**
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package org.openimaj.image.processing.face.tracking;
import java.util.List;
import org.openimaj.image.Image;
import org.openimaj.image.processing.face.detection.DetectedFace;
/**
* An interface for classes that are able to track faces within images.
*
* @author David Dupplaw ([email protected])
*
* @created 13 Oct 2011
*
* @param The type of image on which the face tracker will operate
*/
public interface FaceTracker>
{
/**
* Given the image, can a face be tracked on the image. The implementation
* must deal with finding the face in the first place, if this is the first
* frame it's seen, and it must deal with storage of state as the tracking
* takes place.
*
* @param img The image to track a face in
* @return A list of detected/tracked faces which could be empty
* if no faces are found in the image.
*/
public List trackFace( I img );
}