Activity 1: FaceBoxes

Brief Face Detection Activity

1. Make sure your webcam is attached and that no other application is using it. If so, turn that application off.
2. Draw several face pictures, on a piece of scrap paper, using markers or pens (something with thick lines is preferable). Any style is fine, be creative and try different things.
3. Visit the CodePen OpenCV Face Detection Program: https://codepen.io/bmonteith/full/BaJWzXx
4. Show your artistic faces to the webcam, and check out the response.
5. Record your observations in a chart, similar to the one below.

Face	Did it work? (meaning, did a box show up?)	How well did it work (or other observations)
	yes	Works OK but not as good as the bone below; maybe the marker isn’t dark enough
	yes	best one, had the best response, could be the marker color
	no	Maybe because it has no hair, and it’s at an angle, not straight to the camera
	yes	Maybe it works because it has hair, but even though it’s at an angle it works even though the one above doesn’t

 Things to think about:

• Which faces worked and which ones didn’t work?
• Why do you think that is?
• If it can’t recognize every type of face, is there a problem with the data that was used to make this AI?
• How could this program be improved?