Face Detection trials

Detecting head: while sift shows its robustness in scale and rotation, there is somewhat of an illumination problem

Clearer YOUTUBE videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgr96oeXqH0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lapux3e91_Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMBNLPcLOVk

Matlab AVI video use

Matlab requires a RAW VIDEO file to be imported and used. however most cameras and recording devices use a compression to reduce file size and so on.

my trouble was an AVI file with a different codec. when i used AVIREAD in matlab, it gave me an error that it wasnt able to find the codedc or the frames are not known.

one option that is FREE:
use FFMPEG im downloading the executable for windows from this URL
ffmpeg is a command line tool, so in order to convert to a raw video to use in maatlab you use this command:

c:/> ffmpeg -i foo.avi -vcodec rawvideo bar.avi

foo.avi is your compressed video file
bar.avi is your new raw video file name that you will use in MATLAB