@matigo Nice! What camera did you end up getting?
@tomas yeah -- the biggest thing I'm worried about is the accuracy of the recognition / how adaptable it is to different situations. I'm just using Amazon's image-recognition-thing-as-a-service now, but if that's not enough we may have to take it in-house (and then that means me trying to convince people of the development time required, haha…)
@tomas (we have a online attendance tracking service product, so it'd be cool if we could sell it as a service as well)
@tomas the distributed network isn't really much yet -- there's still a lot of work to be done. The side project, however, is almost done -- it's pretty simple. A raspberry pi connected to a motion sensor and a camera -- it takes a picture when it detects motion, then sends the picture off to a server to detect and match faces. I'm planning on using it to see how effective it would be to do automatic time punch-in and out with facial recognition
After I finish this slightly creepy side-project for the day job, I'll probably concentrate on making my distributed social network, if not only to keep in touch with Chris.