Android FaceDetector

Android provide a class android.media.FaceDetector to identify the faces of people in a Bitmap graphic object.



It's a simple exercise of face detection on Android. You have to place your own photo (in 320x480) into /res/drawable folder, or use the attached photos from the download link on the bottom of the text.

package com.exercise.AndroidFaceDetector;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Paint;
import android.graphics.PointF;
import android.media.FaceDetector;
import android.media.FaceDetector.Face;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;

public class AndroidFaceDetector extends Activity {
    /** Called when the activity is first created. */
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        //setContentView(R.layout.main);
        setContentView(new myView(this));
    }
    
    private class myView extends View{
     
     private int imageWidth, imageHeight;
     private int numberOfFace = 5;
     private FaceDetector myFaceDetect; 
     private FaceDetector.Face[] myFace;
     float myEyesDistance;
     int numberOfFaceDetected;
     
     Bitmap myBitmap;

  public myView(Context context) {
   super(context);
   // TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
   
   BitmapFactory.Options BitmapFactoryOptionsbfo = new BitmapFactory.Options();
   BitmapFactoryOptionsbfo.inPreferredConfig = Bitmap.Config.RGB_565; 
   myBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), R.drawable.face5, BitmapFactoryOptionsbfo);
   imageWidth = myBitmap.getWidth();
   imageHeight = myBitmap.getHeight();
   myFace = new FaceDetector.Face[numberOfFace];
   myFaceDetect = new FaceDetector(imageWidth, imageHeight, numberOfFace);
   numberOfFaceDetected = myFaceDetect.findFaces(myBitmap, myFace); 
   
  }

  @Override
  protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
   // TODO Auto-generated method stub
   
            canvas.drawBitmap(myBitmap, 0, 0, null);
            
            Paint myPaint = new Paint();
            myPaint.setColor(Color.GREEN);
            myPaint.setStyle(Paint.Style.STROKE); 
            myPaint.setStrokeWidth(3);
            
            for(int i=0; i < numberOfFaceDetected; i++)
            {
             Face face = myFace[i];
             PointF myMidPoint = new PointF();
             face.getMidPoint(myMidPoint);
    myEyesDistance = face.eyesDistance();
             canvas.drawRect(
               (int)(myMidPoint.x - myEyesDistance),
               (int)(myMidPoint.y - myEyesDistance),
               (int)(myMidPoint.x + myEyesDistance),
               (int)(myMidPoint.y + myEyesDistance),
               myPaint);
            }
  }
    }
}

Download the files.

Related:
- Face detection for Camera

Updated:
- With the release of Google Play services 7.8, new Mobile Vision APIs was added, to include a new Face API that finds human faces in images and video. Read more: Face Detection with Google Play services, Mobile Vision API (with demo APK)