FAINT - Search for faces

Lately, I've been playing around a bit with facial pattern recognition algorithms and their open source implementations. I came across many reference implementation but a very few were implemented in Java, and the Eigenfaces algorithm by far happens to be the best amongst them all. During my research around the said topic i happened to stumble-upon an implementation called FAINT (The Face Annotation Interface - http://faint.sourceforge.net). Faint by far the best facial pattern recognition API and as you must have already guessed, it implements the Eigenfaces algorithm.

Now enough of theory talks, how about implementing an example with faint...? Here is one for all you face-recognition enthusiasts. The following example simply searches for faces in a given photograph and thumbnails them. Now, I know thats not face recognition; but be a little creative here. Once you have the facial thumbnails extracted, its never a big deal to look further in the Faint API and find methods which can help you do the real recognition. :) Now, i was a little lazy to set up a pattern recognition database to left the example to the point of facial extraction only.

The Simple Class which extracts thumbnails -

import de.offis.faint.controller.MainController;
import de.offis.faint.model.ImageModel;
import de.offis.faint.model.Region;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Random;

public class Main {

private static final String Imagedir = "C:\\images\\fr";
private static final String faintDir = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\roy\\.faint";
private static final String saperator = "\\";
private static final Random randomGenerator = new Random();
private static final boolean moveThumbnails = true;

/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
MainController controller = MainController.getInstance();
if (controller != null) {
controller.setScanWindowSize(1);
ImageModel imageModel = new ImageModel(Imagedir + saperator + "mgrp.jpg");
Region[] regions = controller.detectFaces(imageModel, false);
if (regions != null) {
System.out.println(regions.length + " people in the image...");
for (int i = 0; i < regions.length; i++) {
Region region = regions[i];
region.cacheToDisk();

if (moveThumbnails) {
String cacheFilename = region.getCachedFile();

File file = new File(faintDir + saperator + cacheFilename);
File dir = new File(Imagedir + saperator + "faces");
boolean success = file.renameTo(new File(dir, "face_" + randomGenerator.nextInt() + ".png"));
if (!success) {
System.out.println("Error occured whilst moving " + cacheFilename);
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

Hope somebody out there takes the example further and does something interesting with the learning.