The Face Detector API provides you as a developer with means of locating faces in an image taken by mobile devices. It provides information of if there are faces in the image or not, how many and where they are positioned. These information can then be used to develop mobile applications that are not only limited to face detector but also required to have face detector as a pre-processing step.

1. Face Detector
A labs.ericsson.com enabler
http://labs.ericsson.com/apis/face-detector/

2. Face Detector
A way of locating faces in an image taken by mobile
devices.
Develop innovative mobile applications that require face
location information as input with the Face Detector Java
ME™ components.
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3. Why Face Detector?
Mobile devices are equipped with cameras
nowadays. They are sources of images.
Demands on automatically obtaining face
location info are thus increasing.
Simple API that are developed specifically for
mobiles.
Face Detector from Ericsson Labs provides the
ability of automatically getting face locations
in an image for mobile applications.
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4. Main Features of Face Detector
Automatically detect faces and return their locations.
Detected faces can easily be reused for further
processing purposes.
Ease of Use.
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5. Face Detector Overview
Mobile Application
Application
specific code
Face Detector
JavaME Library
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6. Face Detector API
Java ME library that is easily included in any mobile application.
Supports many phones (should work on most devices with Java
MIDP 2.0 & CLDC 1.1)
The library provides the functionality of obtaining face location
information in an image.
// init a FaceDetector
faceDetector = new FaceDetector();
// feeds input image srcImage into faceDetector
faceDetector.setFaceDetector(srcImage);
// sets the user interface for face detection
faceDetector.setDisplayImageUI(this);
// to see if there are faces in the image
faceDetector.detectFace();
// gets result from faceDetector and stores it in a Vector
faceVector = faceDetector.getResult();
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