OBS Face Tracker 0.2.1

This is a hotfix release of Face Tracker for OBS Studio.

Changes from 0.2.0

• Fixed a bug of memory leaks. Expecting less memory usage than old versions.
• Binary for macOS is signed and notarized. Expecting users on macOS 10.15 or later won't see security errors.

Install

Windows

Download obs-face-tracker-0.2.1-Windows-Installer.exe (provided below) and execute it.
Or, download obs-face-tracker-0.2.1-Windows.zip (provided below) and extract to your OBS Studio installed directory.

MacOS

Download obs-face-tracker-0.2.1-macos.zip (provided below) and extract in /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins.
See also this guide.

Linux

Download and install obs-face-tracker_1-0.2.1-1_amd64.deb (provided below)
Or, compile from source for other distributions.

Limitation

• Binaries for macOS and Ubuntu are not tested.
• Currently the plugin works for one face. If there are two or more faces, the plugin might hover back and forth over the faces.
• Transition with Duplicate Sources, the tracking may start from the initial condition. Recommended to disable Duplicated Sources so far.
• Consumes a lot of CPU. It is recommended to have enough test beforehand to ensure it won't affect encoding.
• There is no warranty for the results. Use at your own risk.
• Deb package for Ubuntu requires OBS Studio 27 or later. Binary packages for Windows and macOS work with OBS Studio 26 or later.

OBS Face Tracker 0.2.0

This is a experimental release of Face Tracker for OBS Studio.

This release has a memory leak bug so that the author highly recommend to use 0.2.2 or the latest revision.

Changes

• Alpha version of PTZ control feature is added.
  Check limitations for known issues.
  • In future, I hope it can connect through obs-ptz so that user can use both manual and automatic control.
• Reset button to reset current object-tracking status as well.
• New property to always show information. It's useful to make a demo of this plugin.

Install

Windows

Download obs-face-tracker-0.2.0-Windows-Installer.exe (provided below) and execute it.
Or, download obs-face-tracker-0.2.0-Windows.zip (provided below) and extract to your OBS Studio installed directory.

MacOS

Download obs-face-tracker-0.2.0-macos.zip (provided below) and extract in /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins.
See also this guide.

Linux

Download and install obs-face-tracker_1-0.2.0-1_amd64.deb (provided below)
Or, compile from source for other distributions.

Limitation

• Binaries for macOS and Ubuntu are not tested.
  • Currently macOS binary has an issue that a dynlib is missing. If you have an issue to load the plugin, please try the previous release 0.1.2.
• Currently the plugin works for one face. If there are two or more faces, the plugin might hover back and forth over the faces.
• Transition with Duplicate Sources, the tracking may start from the initial condition. Recommended to disable Duplicated Sources so far.
• Consumes a lot of CPU. It is recommended to have enough test beforehand to ensure it won't affect encoding.
• There is no warranty for the results. Use at your own risk.
• Deb package for Ubuntu requires OBS Studio 27 or later. Other binaries work with OBS Studio 26 or later.

This release has a memory leak bug so that the author highly recommend to use 0.2.2 or the latest revision.

OBS Face Tracker 0.1.2

This is a hotfix release of Face Tracker for OBS Studio.

Changes

• Linked OpenBLAS library, might improve performance. (macOS)
  In case if loading plugin fail, please file an issue and use 0.1.1
• Fixed library install directory. (Ubuntu) #22
• Fixed coding issues to resolve some environments.

(There is no change for Windows packages.)

Install

Windows

Download obs-face-tracker-0.1.2-Windows-Installer.exe (provided below) and execute it.
Or, download obs-face-tracker-0.1.2-Windows.zip (provided below) and extract to your OBS Studio installed directory.

MacOS

Download obs-face-tracker-0.1.2-macos.zip (provided below) and extract in /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins.
See also this guide.

Linux

Download and install obs-face-tracker-0.1.2_amd64.deb (provided below)
Or, compile from source for other distributions.

Limitation

• Binaries for macOS and Ubuntu are not tested.
• Currently the plugin works for one face. If there are two or more faces, the plugin might hover back and forth over the faces.
• Transition with Duplicate Sources, the tracking may start from the initial condition. Recommended to disable Duplicated Sources so far.
• Consumes a lot of CPU. It is recommended to have enough test beforehand to ensure it won't affect encoding.
• There is no warranty for the results. Use at your own risk.

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• Jimcom, a PTZ camera vendor, is now providing a coupon code FACETRACK20 for 20% discount and free shipping in the USA.

OBS Face Tracker 0.1.1

This is an experimental release of Face Tracker for OBS Studio.

Changes

• Fixed nan causing face tracker to stop.
• Increased thread priority of face-tracker (Linux and macOS).

Install

Windows

Download obs-face-tracker-0.1.1-Windows-Installer.exe (provided below) and execute it.
Or, download obs-face-tracker-0.1.1-Windows.zip (provided below) and extract to your OBS Studio installed directory.

MacOS

Download obs-face-tracker-0.1.1-macos.zip (provided below) and extract in /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins.
See also this guide.

Linux

Download and install obs-face-tracker-0.1.1_amd64.deb (provided below)
Or, compile from source for other distributions.

Limitation

• Binaries for macOS and Ubuntu are not tested.
• Binaries for Windows and Ubuntu require OBS Studio 27 or later. Binary for macOS requires OBS Studio 26 or later.
• Currently the plugin works for one face. If there are two or more faces, the plugin might hover back and forth over the faces.
• Transition with Duplicate Sources, the tracking may start from the initial condition. Recommended to disable Duplicated Sources so far.
• Consumes a lot of CPU and memory resource. It is recommended to have enough test beforehand.
• Accuracy of the result is not guaranteed.

OBS Face Tracker 0.1.0

This is a first experimental release of OBS Face Tracker.

Note: the latest release is available here.

Install

Windows

Download obs-face-tracker-0.1.0-Windows.zip (provided below) and extract to your OBS Studio installed directory.

MacOS

Download obs-face-tracker-0.1.0-macos.zip (provided below)
and extract in /Library/Application Support/obs-studio/plugins.

Linux

Download and install obs-face-tracker-0.1.0_amd64.deb (provided below)
Or, compile from source for other distributions.

Limitation

• MacOS and Ubuntu binaries are not tested.
• Currently the plugin works for one face. If there are two or more faces, the plugin might hover back and forth over the faces.
• Consumes a lot of CPU and memory resource. It is recommended to have enough test beforehand.
• Accuracy of the result is not guaranteed.
• If you see your anti-virus software alarms the installer, please file to issue page with the information of (a) anti-virus software and (b) type of the virus (either text or screen shot is ok).