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Capture facial motion without markers using monocular or binocular cameras and render a real-time avatar.

This project is still under development.

Features

• Head pose mimicked by a real-time face mask.
• (TODO) Facial motion mimicked by a real-time avatar.

Dependencies

• OpenCV (>=3.2.0)
• OpenGL
• GLUT
• dlib (included)
• GFrame (included)
• CMake

How to Compile

This will build all the libraries and executables.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DUSE_AVX_INSTRUCTIONS=1
make -j
make install

Running Head Pose Avatar

All executables are installed in build/bin/

Run FaceViewer

./FaceViewer face.obj shaders/ 5055

• Arguments: ./FaceViewer [obj file] [shaders dirctory] [port number]

Or directly run a default version (same as the above one)

./FaceViewer

This will

• Start rendering a face mask.
• Start a separate thread running a server. It will transform the face model using the pose data sent from the capture client.

Run Capture Client

Open another terminal and run the client for capturing head pose.

./HeadPoseEstimation

• By default the above command it reads in the pose model file located in current directory, and connected to localhost:5055. You can customize it by running:

./HeadPoseEstimation shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat [ip-address] [port number]

This will

• Open a camera (by default connected to device 0), capture facial landmark on your face and estimate head pose in realtime.

• Press key s to start streaming pose data to server so you can see your avatar mimicking your head pose.

Demo

• https://youtu.be/WqK0lBP0K7g
• https://youtu.be/2-xo8OPWjaA