During the CHI conference the guys at faceAPI presented their software. What you could see was a working version of the head tracking demo by Johnny Lee we saw earlier, but with just a webcam and no Wii-mote.
The software could recognize the human face within 6 degrees of freedom. As far as I could tell, it worked pretty well. Except that this setup might have a hard time in darker environments. A webcam always needs sufficient light. Great development. Next step: some decent head tracking supported games?
Back from a week of Italy with my colleagues. We were there to visit CHI 2008. Due to this conference we were occupied daily, which resulted in not much time for tourist related stuff.
I would have loved to go to Uffizi for example, but the enormous cue was too much of a trade off compared to the nice weather and walking around in the city during the one day we actually could. Anyway, I will visit this city again sometime, along with others when travelling through Italy.
