Disabling face tracking on webcam - S405
Does anyone know how to disable or turn off the face tracking feature (on the webcam) on the S405? I see it uses quite a bit of CPU resources. The only way I can turn it off is by killing it in the task manager. Then it comes back after a reboot. I want to permanently disable it. Called Lenovo, they were no help at all.
Maybe you can try uninstall and reinstall the software.
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Can't turn off face tracking on Live! Ultra for Notebooks
Please help! I've installed Live! Ultra for Notebooks and it works reasonably well, except for the fact that I can't turn off the Face Tracking feature.
When I installed everything, I selected "Smart", but I hate the way that the camera keeps panning off to different parts of the room. So, I just want to turn this feature OFF.
But every time I open the Face Tracking Utility, or go to the screen via "Tools," I can click "off". But, it doesn't actually turn off; the camera still keeps panning off to the far corners of the room. And the next time I access the Face Tracking Utility again, it has defaulted back to "Smart". Any suggestions on how to disable this feature?
My system is as follows:
Dell Inspiron 700M
Intel Pentium M 2.00 GHz processor
Windows XP Home Edition, service pack 2
Happy new year & thanks in advance..Finally figured it out. In case anyone else has the same problem of your computer ignoring changes in the Face Tracking Utility screen, try this:
Go to Webcam Center. Click on "Capture" then the "Source" tab, one of two discrete grey tabs just above the video screen.
Under "Extended Settings" you have the options for face tracking: off, continuous or smart. Click it and your computer should actually hold onto this setting until you change it again!
Good luck.
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I tried to turn off the face tracking under Face Tracking Options (there are three options, off, continous and smart). I clicked "off" each time, but it did work. The setting automatically returns to either "continous" or "smart". Can anyone help?
There appears to be a bug in the software that won't let you turn it off. It will only allow you to switch to continous or smart. So, I did some poking around and to turn it off you'll need to edit your registry*
Open Regedit and navigate to the following key.
I've only done this on one PC so the VF0070 name may be different.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Creative Tech\Web Cameras\VF0070
In this folder you will find a key named: FaceTrackingMode
0 = off
1 = Continous
2 = smart
You will need to stop and restart WebCam Center in order for the change to take effect.
*I nor Creative Labs is responsible if you do any damage to or in any way screw up your computer. If you are not comfortable with editing the registry then don't do it. -
On initial installation, there was the face tracking utility. After I downloaded the updates, from the Creative Labs web site, smart face tracking was gone. Is it possible to install the face tracking utility only, from the installation CD?
Finally figured it out. In case anyone else has the same problem of your computer ignoring changes in the Face Tracking Utility screen, try this:
Go to Webcam Center. Click on "Capture" then the "Source" tab, one of two discrete grey tabs just above the video screen.
Under "Extended Settings" you have the options for face tracking: off, continuous or smart. Click it and your computer should actually hold onto this setting until you change it again!
Good luck.
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Is it possible to do face-tracking in FLV webcam
conferensing?
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How can I disable the "Events" how can I disable "Faces"
buona sera
how can I disable the "Events"
how can I disable "Faces"
grazieYou can not
Events are one of many views or your photos in your library - as are faces
YOu can simply ignore both but you can disable them
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How to control Get3DShape() in Microsoft Kinect face tracking SDK?
I'm working on a lip-reading project and I'm using Microsoft Kinect face tracking SDK in order to extract lip features in a generated text file from C# to be processed in MATLAB. The features are 29 angles resulting after calculating the distances between
the 18 feature points related to the lips using Get3DShape() function to get the co-ordinates in each frame and my code looks like that which I added in facetrackingviewer.cs:
public void getangles(FaceTrackFrame fr)
var shape = fr.Get3DShape();
var X_7 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleTopDipUpperLip].X;
var Y_7 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleTopDipUpperLip].Y;
var Z_7 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleTopDipUpperLip].Z;
var X_31 = shape[FeaturePoint.OutsideRightCornerMouth].X;
var Y_31 = shape[FeaturePoint.OutsideRightCornerMouth].Y;
var Z_31 = shape[FeaturePoint.OutsideRightCornerMouth].Z;
var X_33 = shape[FeaturePoint.RightTopDipUpperLip].X;
var Y_33 = shape[FeaturePoint.RightTopDipUpperLip].Y;
var Z_33 = shape[FeaturePoint.RightTopDipUpperLip].Z;
var X_40 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleTopLowerLip].X;
var Y_40 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleTopLowerLip].Y;
var Z_40 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleTopLowerLip].Z;
var X_41 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleBottomLowerLip].X;
var Y_41 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleBottomLowerLip].Y;
var Z_41 = shape[FeaturePoint.MiddleBottomLowerLip].Z;
var X_64 = shape[FeaturePoint.OutsideLeftCornerMouth].X;
var Y_64 = shape[FeaturePoint.OutsideLeftCornerMouth].Y;
var Z_64 = shape[FeaturePoint.OutsideLeftCornerMouth].Z;
var X_66 = shape[FeaturePoint.LeftTopDipUpperLip].X;
var Y_66 = shape[FeaturePoint.LeftTopDipUpperLip].Y;
var Z_66 = shape[FeaturePoint.LeftTopDipUpperLip].Z;
//some stuff
float[] point1 = new float[3] { X_7, Y_7, Z_7 };
float[] point2 = new float[3] { X_64, Y_64, Z_64 };
float[] point3 = new float[3] { X_41, Y_41, Z_41 };
float[] point4 = new float[3] { X_80, Y_80, Z_80 };
float[] point5 = new float[3] { X_88, Y_88, Z_88 };
float[] point6 = new float[3] { X_31, Y_31, Z_31 };
float[] point7 = new float[3] { X_87, Y_87, Z_87 };
float[] point8 = new float[3] { X_40, Y_40, Z_40 };
float[] point9 = new float[3] { X_89, Y_89, Z_89 };
float[] point10 = new float[3] { X_86, Y_86, Z_86 };
float[] point11 = new float[3] { X_85, Y_85, Z_85 };
float[] point12 = new float[3] { X_82, Y_82, Z_82 };
float[] point13 = new float[3] { X_84, Y_84, Z_84 };
float[] point14 = new float[3] { X_66, Y_66, Z_66 };
float deltax = point2[0] - point1[0];
float deltay = point2[1] - point1[1];
float deltaz = point2[2] - point1[2];
float cetax = point3[0] - point2[0];
float cetay = point3[1] - point2[1];
float cetaz = point3[2] - point2[2];
float notex = point3[0] - point1[0];
float notey = point3[1] - point1[1];
float notez = point3[2] - point1[2];
float deltax1 = point5[0] - point4[0];
float deltay1 = point5[1] - point4[1];
float deltaz1 = point5[2] - point4[2];
float deltax2 = point5[0] - point3[0];
float deltay2 = point5[1] - point3[1];
float deltaz2 = point5[2] - point3[2];
//some stuff
float distance = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax * deltax) + (deltay * deltay) + (deltaz * deltaz));
float distance1 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((cetax * cetax) + (cetay * cetay) + (cetaz * cetaz));
float distance2 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((notex * notex) + (notey * notey) + (notez * notez));
float distance3 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax1 * deltax1) + (deltay1 * deltay1) + (deltaz1 * deltaz1));
float distance4 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax2 * deltax2) + (deltay2 * deltay2) + (deltaz2 * deltaz2));
float distance5 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax3 * deltax3) + (deltay3 * deltay3) + (deltaz3 * deltaz3));
float distance6 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax4 * deltax4) + (deltay4 * deltay4) + (deltaz4 * deltaz4));
float distance7 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax5 * deltax5) + (deltay5 * deltay5) + (deltaz5 * deltaz5));
float distance9 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax6 * deltax6) + (deltay6 * deltay6) + (deltaz6 * deltaz6));
float distance8 = (float)
Math.Sqrt((deltax7 * deltax7) + (deltay7 * deltay7) + (deltaz7 * deltaz7));
//some stuff
double feature = CalcAngleB(distance, distance2, distance1);
double feature2 = CalcAngleB(distance2, distance, distance);
double feature3 = CalcAngleB(distance, distance1, distance2);
double feature4 = CalcAngleB(distance3, distance5, distance4);
double feature5 = CalcAngleB(distance5, distance4, distance3);
double feature6 = CalcAngleB(distance4, distance3, distance5);
double feature7 = CalcAngleB(distance6, distance, distance7);
double feature8 = CalcAngleB(distance10, distance8, distance9);
double feature9 = CalcAngleB(distance9, distance10, distance8);
double feature10 = CalcAngleB(distance8, distance9, distance10);
//some stuff
using (System.IO.StreamWriter file = new System.IO.StreamWriter(@"D:\angles.txt", true))
file.WriteLine("{0},{1},{2},{3},{4},{5},{6},{7},{8},{9},{10},{11},{12},{13},{14},{15},{16},{17},{18},{19},{20},{21},{22},{23},{24},{25},{26},{27},{28}", feature, feature2, feature3, feature4, feature5, feature6, feature7, feature8, feature9, feature10, feature11, feature12, feature13, feature14, feature15, feature16, feature17, feature18, feature19, feature20, feature21, feature22, feature23, feature24, feature25, feature26, feature27, feature28, feature29);
Where CalculateAngleB is a declared function above:
public double CalcAngleB(double a, double b, double c)
return Math.Acos((a * a + c * c - b * b) / (2 * a * c));
and I call getangles(fr) at :
internal void OnFrameReady(KinectSensor kinectSensor, ColorImageFormat colorImageFormat, byte[] colorImage, DepthImageFormat depthImageFormat, short[] depthImage, Skeleton skeletonOfInterest)
this.skeletonTrackingState = skeletonOfInterest.TrackingState;
if (this.skeletonTrackingState != SkeletonTrackingState.Tracked)
// nothing to do with an untracked skeleton.
return;
if (this.faceTracker == null)
try
this.faceTracker = new FaceTracker(kinectSensor);
catch (InvalidOperationException)
// During some shutdown scenarios the FaceTracker
// is unable to be instantiated. Catch that exception
// and don't track a face.
Debug.WriteLine("AllFramesReady - creating a new FaceTracker threw an InvalidOperationException");
this.faceTracker = null;
if (this.faceTracker != null)
FaceTrackFrame frame = this.faceTracker.Track(
colorImageFormat, colorImage, depthImageFormat, depthImage, skeletonOfInterest);
getangles(frame);
this.lastFaceTrackSucceeded = frame.TrackSuccessful;
if (this.lastFaceTrackSucceeded)
if (faceTriangles == null)
// only need to get this once. It doesn't change.
faceTriangles = frame.GetTriangles();
//MessageBox.Show("face has been detected");
this.facePoints = frame.GetProjected3DShape();
//this.FaceRect = new System.Windows.Rect(frame.FaceRect.Left, frame.FaceRect.Top, frame.FaceRect.Width, frame.FaceRect.Height);
Now, whenever the mask appears as if (this.facetracker!=null), the code starts to calculate the angles and generate the text file. My question is how can I add a control (e.g.Timer or button) to decide exactly when to start calculating features or generating
the file because in data collection I need features to be recorded accurately when the speaker starts to pronounce phrases not when the mask appears. I have tried to add a dispatcherTimer as when the timer counts after the mask appears it starts to calculate
the angles like this:
private static void dispatcherTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
Microsoft.Kinect.Toolkit.FaceTracking.FaceTrackFrame fr;
fr = facetracker.Track(sensor.ColorStream.Format, colorPixelData,
sensor.DepthStream.Format, depthPixelData,skeleton);
//getangles(fr) and stream writter
and added this to getangles(fr)
System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer dispatcherTimer = new System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer();
dispatcherTimer.Tick += dispatcherTimer_Tick;
dispatcherTimer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 10);
dispatcherTimer.Start();
but this gives an error in: var shape = frame.Get3DShape(); as using unassigned variable frame and I tried to declare facetracker in timer's void but this gives me an error too so, if you have an I idea how can I add a timer or a button to control when the
angles to be calculated I would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.Hi Mesbah15,
I am not sure if I’ve understood the question correctly. You can try using event to communicate with other classes. Define an event, when mask appears you just need call that event handler.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/17sde2xt(v=VS.100).aspx.
Please post more information about your scenario for better understanding if event handler not help.
Regards,
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how can i use google without being tracked...if i disable google tracking the google search results won't direct me to listed web sites..also how do i stop people from knowing my address and location
specifically if i disable the "disable google tracking" add-on...then when i click on a search result it takes me to the website.Hi,
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I want to disable Faces. It is causing problems and I have no need of it.
The following is a partial disablement of Faces. It prevents iPhoto from creating the many Faces image files and adding to the faces database. It won't prevent iPhoto from scanning for faces.
1 - open the library like this in the Finder.
2 - in the Database folder move this file to the Trash: Faces.db.
3 - close the package/folder and launch iPhoto. Close it after a moment.
4 - open the package, find the new version of the file and lock it via the Info window for the file.
5 - while viewing the contents of the package type Command+F to start a search.
6 - set the criteria of the search to: Kind is Image and Name Contains "face".
7 - select all of the files in the search results window and drag to the Trash.
8 -close the package and launch iPhoto.
You will get the faces spinning wheel as it tries to index the library the first time it's opened but it won't be able to write to the database file if you should try to add a face and won't create any new jpeg faces files. Of course make a backup of your library before trying this and no guarantee implied.
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How can I disable 'Faces' in i-Photo?
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HT4623 I just lost my iPhone 4, then someone picked it up & disable the tracking feature.
Note I just lost my iPhone 4, then someone picked it up & disable the tracking feature in iCloud.
If that person use this stolen iPhone, can apple store trackiong him & blocked him? or even reset the phone status to default. Serial # of this iPhone is 86107QW6A4T.
Note iPhone is now a very personal item in life, we may drop & lost, or even stolen or by attack to kinapped, strongly request Apple can do something to protect their loyalty customers & their image, no one can stole iPhone, no one can use something which not belong to them, once the device is registrate, only change with by actual owner's authorization whne them sell or gift.
Even your turn off the tracking feature of Find My iPhone, but we still can found by seria # with GPS founction. Is this against the law of privacy?The phone can no longer be tracked by you if it's not signed into your apple id, not even by Apple. It can't be tracked by the serial number either.
The registration of the device can be changed by the person who has access to the serial number, which I know is unfortunate, but that's how it works.
It's against the law to steal an iPhone, for sure.
If the tracking feature of Find my iPhone is turned off, the device is no longer broadcasting a GPS signal. If someone were to sign into the phone with their apple id, it would then be trackable by them but by no one else
It's against Apple's Privacy Policy to access personal information on the phone unless they explicitly need it for troubleshooting purposes. This is unfortunately not one of those instances.
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Can you disable face analyzing in Imagebrowser EX?
I recently bought a Canon SX700HS and installed rhe software on Windows 7.
I really have no use for Face ID and would like to disable the Imagebrowser EX 1.5.0.6 feature that analyzes all the images in my picture folders (FaceExt).
I have unchecked the Face ID "Kepp analyzing face info after exit", but I really want to tottaly disable face analyzing.
Any help would be appreciated.You can't disable faces. From your other threads I suspect that your problem is that you have imported on Library to another.
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Is there any way to disable face recognition in the latest Yosemite update for Photos?
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The face tracking on my W530 seemed to be a bit slower than the video showing off the T530's Face tracking.
They should have the same camera correct?
Also, When I have the "Virtual Camera Driver," installed, the facetracking is fine, but the camera is stuck at 640x480. When that driver is removed, the camera can be set to 1280x720, but The facetracking and desktop sharing features are lost. Is this a bug or intentional?
I don't really care about face tracking, but it's a neat feature.
W530(2436-CTO): i7-3720QM, nVidia Quadro K2000M,16GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, 128GB mSATA SSD, Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome, Centrino Ultimate-N 6300.
Yoga 3 Pro: Intel Core-M 5Y70, Intel HD 5300, 8GB RAM, 128GB eMMC, Windows 8.1, Broadcom Wireless 802.11ac.Optimus ALWAYS uses the integrated card. What it does is when the nVidia Card is off, the integrated card drives the display and any applications running that don't use the card. When the nVidia card is triggered by an application, and you aren't using an external monitor, the Panel is still driven by the Intel integrated card, but the video output(i.e what is being displayed), is pumped from the nVidia card through the intel card. so either way, the intel card drives the display output for the internal LCD. The Video ouput ports however(aside from VGA, although on mine that goes through nvidia too), are run by the nVidia Discrete graphics.
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The face tracking library uses a number of resource files that account for 43mb ... is there a way to tell the library to load these files fron a different location other than the default, or hook the file loader so the files can be stored in a single, larger
WAD file and retrieved upon request?
Thanks in advance
V
Vicente PenadesIf you use a tool like Process Montior, you can determine which folders it is looking for the database file(typically in the folder of the .exe, but can be other system folders based on Windows functionality of LoadLibrary() api).
Carmine Sirignano - MSFT
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