The chuckling guy is the antagonist from the anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. during each of his public appearances in the series he handles to hack all video feeds/cyborg eyes in the vicinity to obscure his deal with with the logo above.
[Ben Kurtz] had been viewing the series just recently as well as realized he might put together a similar impact utilizing Processing. The fascinating bit, as well as what makes this much more fun than a easy demo, is that he’s utilizing the OpenCV library. OpenCV is a open source computer vision library. [Ben] utilizes it to deal with the facial recognition in Processing as well as then apply the image.
It’s only 100 lines as well as we question what other fun techniques might be employed. Here’s a Hack a Day skull you can switch in for the logo.
[thanks dakami]