GameFace

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Create a controller that uses facial tracking in use for different video games.

The controller will be made to interact with DosBox in order to play retro games such as pacman, mortal kombat etc.

Windows
C++ Boost Library version 1.6.2 or later
- Available here
- Or at www.boost.org
CMake version 2.8.4 or later
- Available here
- Or at www.cmake.org
C++ Dlib version 19.2 or later
- Available here
- Or at www.dlib.net
A C++11 compiler (Visual Studio is recommended)
- Available here
- Or at www.visualstudio.com/free-developer-offers
OpenCV
- Available here
- Or at www.opencv.org

Install CMake.
Download the OpenCV self-extracting archive and place it in a location you can access.
Run the CMake GUI and build the OpenCV library.
Select the source code of OpenCV, which is in the OpenCV/sources/ folder.
Build the binaries in the OpenCV/build folder
Press 'Configure', and wait for it to complete
Press 'Generate' to finish the installation
Once OpenCV is built, download the provided dlib folder
Build the folder using CMake
For the source code, select the dlib/Face folder
Build the binaries in that folder
Press 'Configure' and wait for completion
If you get an error saying that OpenCV is not found, find the OpenCV_DIR variable and change the path to point to your OpenCV build folder
Generate the code
Once the code is generated, press 'Open Project'
Run the Visual Studio project file from the \verb|dlib/build| folder and build the project inside Visual Studio

To use GameFace, simply double-click the webcam_face_pose_ex.exe file and you're good to go! Currently the controls are as follow:

Original Speed(fps) using dlib is usually between 5~8, now it is increse to more than 20 when playing video.