OpenCV face detector running on PS3

Some weeks ago a video was published on Youtube as example of execution of facedetect application. This application is not ours, it belongs to fixstars.

The application applies different filters on the image adquired and identifies faces within a circle of different colours.

This video is very funny, in the first part of the video can be seen the execution just only on PPU. The second part of the video shows the full power of this application (6 SPUs and PPU).

We pictured a face on an A4 paper and we showed it to the webcam. The algorith seemed to recognice the face on the paper, but the video doesn’t appear to show the circle around the head.