Parametric Mooney Face Generator

A simple and graphical tool to generate Mooney faces. This tool generates Mooney faces using fully synthetic face images from a 3D Morphable Face Model. You get full control over parameters like face shape, color, illumination and pose.

Learn more about 3D Morphable Models

Requirements

• installed Java (Version 8.0 or higher recommended)
• installed sbt (only for compiling from sources)
• generate a new folder for this project
• download the Basel Face Model 2019
• download the Basel Illumination Prior 2017
• move the Basel Illumination Prior to the data directory of your generated folder. There should now be a parameters folder in the data directory.

Run (precompiled):

• make sure to fulfil all requirements above
• download mooney-generator.jar under release and put it in the same folder as the data folder.
• run java -Xmx2g -jar mooney-generator.jar
• select the model2019_fullHead.h5 file containing the full head Basel Face Model to start

Usage:

• upper random and reset button will update color/shape/expression/Mooney/illumination parameters for active tab
• lower reset button will update all model parameters
• lower random button will update all model parameters except mooney parameters
• the button neutralModel will remove the expression part of the model
• the random illumination button will change the illumination to a random one
• the button load mooney RPS will load rendering parameters from a .rps file with shape, color, expression, and mooney
• the button 'write mooney RPS' will write the rendering parameters to a .rps file with shape, color, expression, and mooney
• the button write PLY enables writing the current instance as a mesh in the ply file format without mooney parameters
• the button export PNG enables writing the mooney version of the current instance as an image in the png file format
• the button export original PNG enables writing the original current instance as an image in the png file format
• sliders are ordered according to the principal components for shape, color and expressions and spherical harmonics parameters for illumination.
• the maximal parameter value corresponding to the sliders can be adjusted
• press Ctrl to move pose with mouse (first click on face to activate the frame)

For Developers:

• clone repository
• compile and run using sbt run -mem 2000

Maintainer

• Riya Arora riya@mit.edu
• Bernhard Egger egger.bernhard@gmail.com

This tool was built starting from the Basel Face Model Viewer

Dependencies

• scalismo-faces 0.9.2+