Gary Renaud
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Thank you for your reply. We are using very specific webcam software, the only one we’ve that works for our other requirements because what we are doing is not straight forward. We could of course contact that webcam software company as you suggest to see what they suggest. However I know we cannot place a physically permanent graphic on the monitor screen (as nice and simple as that sounds to me) since we need the monitor’s full real estate to display the aged images later on. I had suggested to my programmer that we set the video at 50% opacity and place the graphic oval in behind the live video but he says we do not have that ability with this webcam software. What to do. Any other ideas??
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Let me be a little clearer if I can. I want to display live video on a regular LCD monitor and then overlay a fixed static oval ring onto the middle of that live video as a visual positioning aid. The live video is coming from a webcam placed above the LCD monitor. Face position and size is very important to our Face Aging application.
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We make an exhibit called Face Age for children’s science centers that allow them to aged their face and see how their face will change as they will grow up and grow older. To do this we need to first capture a good face image. We are developing a new face acquisition system that involves a webcam positioned above an LCD monitor.
To capture a face image, we present the user with a live video of their face however there is no guide for indicating how close they should be to the camera before taking their face pictures which often causes reject face images. Very frustrating.
What I would like to do is place an static oval ring over the live video so that the user can use it as a centering and positioning aid. And I would like to do this using software only i.e. no external switchers if possible. We are running Windows XP Pro. I would need to have some control over the color and opacity of the oval ring.Can you suggest any ideas to accomplish this?