Shows how to use the FaceTracker class to find human faces within an video stream.
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Specifically, this sample shows how to:
- Initialize and manage the FaceTracker object
- Start a live webcam capture and display the video stream
- Execute face tracking to find human faces within the video stream
- Acquire video frames from the video capture stream and convert it to a format supported by FaceTracker
- Retrieve results from FaceTracker and visualize them
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The FaceTracker is intended to operate on a running video stream and is optimized to find and track human faces in real-time. In order to detect human faces within a static image or a single video frame, use the FaceDetector API instead.
Media capture using capture device
Windows.Media.FaceAnalysis.FaceTracker
Windows.Media.FaceAnalysis namespace
Windows.Media.Capture.MediaCapture namespace
Hardware: Camera
Client: Windows 10
Server: Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview
Phone: Windows 10
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