FaceOSC Installation and Processing Examples

Download FaceOSC:

https://github.com/kylemcdonald/ofxFaceTracker/releases (.zip)

Changing faceOSC settings:

Inside the FaceOSC package there is an xml file called settings.xml.
Right Click → Show Package Content → data → settings.xml
port: must be the same in both applications (defaults to 8338)
host: localhost will send to the same computer otherwise find the correct ip address of the computer you are sending to.

OSC Messages:

• OSC uses an address protocol to identify data sent
• Associated with the address are values in sequence
• For example, FaceOSC sends a single integer value (0 or 1) with the address: /found

FaceOSC address specification:

Always sent

• /found i: 0 or 1 if a face is currently being tracked

Sent when a face is being tracked

• /pose/position ff: center coordinate position of the tracked face in the capture dimensions (camera w & h,default is 640x480)
• /pose/scale f: size of the tracked face (smaller when farther from the camera)
• /pose/orientation fff: 3d vector denoting the orientation of the tracked face (looking left, angled, down, etc)
• /gesture/mouth/width f: left to right of mouth
• /gesture/mouth/height f: top to bottom of inner mouth
• /gesture/eyebrow/left f: center of the eye to middle of eyebrow
• /gesture/eyebrow/right f: center of the eye to middle of eyebrow
• /gesture/eye/left f: upper inner eye to lower outer eye
• /gesture/eye/right f: upper inner eye to lower outer eye
• /gesture/jaw f: nose center to chin center
• /gesture/nostrils f: left side of nose to right side of nose

Face OSC Templates

https://github.com/CreativeInquiry/FaceOSC-Templates

FaceOSC and Processing

To make FaceOSC working width Processing you need the OSCP5 library
http://www.sojamo.de/libraries/oscP5/#installation

• Open Processing
• Go to Skecth -> Import Library -> Add Library
• Search OSCP5 and install it

FaceOSC processing templates

Open FaceOSC, and run the sketches

• FaceOSC Template (Basic Example) : face_osc_template
• FaceOSC Visual Example: face_osc_mouth_color
• FaceOSC with audio, minim library: face_osc_drum