EyeToy USB Camera (The one I used was an early model and was manufactured by Logitech, later EyeToys were manufactured by Namtai. Bear in mind this is the first time I have done a VC++ project so I probably didn’t do everything in an optimal way. I started work on it last night and now have an working(ish) example of how to use the EyeToy for facial recognition using OpenCV. I then remembered that I had an old EyeToy USB camera laying around at home that I could use as a capture device and use OpenCV for some basic face recognition. I started messing around with facial recognition on the Kinect using HD face as well as a more traditional PCA based approach using Eigen Faces from this great sample here. For my current job, I have been developing a strength training application using Microsoft’s Kinect for Xbox One which piqued my interest in computer vision.
The PlayStation 2 EyeToy was released in 2003 and was basically a USB webcam that you could attach to your PS2 to play certain games using your body and voice commands.
