The Observer is a software for a face recognition and face tracking devices. The application is able to fully and reliably control the movement of the camera using two servomotors in any direction. The real-time recognition algorithm is provided by the optimized computer vision library OpenCV.
The entire software was developed with a performance in mind and all decisions were made to be perfectly compatible with low-end PCs (aiming to be runnable on minicomputers like Raspberry Pis).
The observer uses these technologies to run properly:
Tested on Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+:
With go, opencv4, gocv and gobot installed, run this command to install
executable file into your PATH:
$ go get github.com/chutommy/observer-rpiOR
Download the source and run the install.sh file as a sudo user in the project
root directory to install all dependencies and the Observer software (can take
up to 15 minutes).
$ sudo ./installType ./observer -h or --help in a terminal to get more info about the
observer command.
The project is under the MIT open source software license.