Android Application : Augmented Reality or Image Recognition

Question

I am interested in developing an Android Application that employs the Android Devices Camera to detect moving "Targets".

The three types of targets I need to detect and distinguish between are pedestrians, runners (joggers) and cyclists.

The augmented realities SDK's I have looked at only seem to offer face recognition which doesn't sound like they can detect entire people.

Have i misunderstood what Augmented Realities SDK can provide?

Answer 1

There is a big list of AR SDKs (also for Android platform):

Augmented reality SDKs

However, to be honest I strongly doubt that you will find any (doesn't matter free or payed) SDK for your task. It is to specific so you should probably write it by yourself using OpenCV .

OpenCV will allow you to detect objects (more or less) and then you will need to write some algorithm for classification. I would recommend classification based on object speed.

Then, when you have your object classified you can add any AR SDK to add something to your picture.