It Works!

IT WORKS!

HOLY CRAP IT ACTUALLY WORKS!

I trained it on a set of about half of the images, because it takes a long time to train.  Then I ran it on the video and it was actually returning the right person most of the time.  I’m actually shocked that it’s working so well, especially seeing that this is the first time I’ve had the recognition part actually compiling and running.  No real tweaking necessary.  The problems I’ve been having have all been with calling the functions and simply using the library, it’s not that the software was doing what I told it to do and it all came out wrong.

Looking at this trace, you can even get a sense of the cuts in the scene:

Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: DeannaTroi
Recognized: JeanLucPicard
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta
Recognized: Anthwarta

Of course, right now, it’s only working on the positive cases.  When it knows someone, it knows them.  When it doesn’t know someone, it randomly guesses about who it is.

Now, something interesting about that…  I haven’t trained the system on Wesley yet.  He’s down in the Ws and the images I trained with were alphabetical.  However, in the scenes with him, he’s fairly regularly identified as “JeanLucPicard”.

Gotta wonder if the Doctor and the Captain have something they need to talk to him about…

Now I just have to label the faces on the screen, since screenshots are better than random text.