Tracko

Tracko is a mobile application for Android built using HyperTrack and enables its users' to obtain the live location of other users using Face Recognition.

Introduction

In situations where it is not feasible to call someone we're close to often but want to know their current location/live location for safety reasons, we can use this prototype to track the user's whereabouts by simply using a picture of them.

Face Recognition

Face Recognition technology is used in detecting a face from a digital image or video and matching the face against a database of faces.

Requirements

• Turn on Location
• Enable all Camera, Gallery and Location Permissions and set to 'Always Allow'
• Allow Location Tracking in Background
• Ensure that the application is downloaded on both the users' devices i.e, the user tracking and the user being tracked.

Source code

Frontend and Backened source codes are available in their respective folders in this repository.

Architecture

Instructions for Usage

• Download the Tracko app on your Mobile using the apk file provided

• Enable Camera and Gallery permissions

• Register yourself by entering the necessary details and taking a picture

• Enable Location Permissions

• Click on 'Track Person' to track a user's live location

• Select an image from your gallery

• View the user's current location

Programming Langauages, softwares, IDEs and other tools used

• Java
• Android Studio
• Eclipse
• Microsoft Azure Face API