El Bruno

Hi!

In my previous posts I explained how to detect faces and perform face recognition in python. Today I’ll explore another feature in the face_recognition package: Find Facial Features.

The live camera output will be something like this:

Note: Special thanks to my daughter who is always OK to help me with this.

The main sample in the source code uses a photo to detect facial features and creates a new one with the features detected. In the following sample, is amazing to check that it detect a far away face behind the main ones and also, somehow, it detect some landmarks behind my girl glasses:

I wanted to see how fast this library work to perform this with a live camera feed, and the results are very good.

I spend sometime figuring out the best way to draw lines with OpenCV, at the end the PolyLine() function is the one doing all the magic (lines 14 to 17). It took me sometime, to find the best way to deal with matrix transformations and some other performance tricks, but at the end I get this up and running in 25 lines which is kind of amazing. And the final code is very simple:

	import face_recognition
	import cv2
	import numpy as np
	video_capture = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
	while True:
	ret, frame = video_capture.read()
	rgb_frame = frame[:, :, ::-1]
	face_landmarks_list = face_recognition.face_landmarks(rgb_frame)
	for face_landmarks in face_landmarks_list:
	for facial_feature in face_landmarks.keys():
	pts = np.array([face_landmarks[facial_feature]], np.int32)
	pts = pts.reshape((-1,1,2))
	cv2.polylines(frame, [pts], False, (0,255,0))
	cv2.imshow('Video', frame)
	if cv2.waitKey(1) & 0xFF == ord('q'):
	break
	video_capture.release()
	cv2.destroyAllWindows()

view raw FaceRecognitionDetecFacialFeatures.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The complete project is available here https://github.com/elbruno/Blog/tree/master/20190528%20Python%20FaceRecognition

Happy Coding!

Greetings @ Burlington

El Bruno

Resources

• Anaconda Distribution, https://www.anaconda.com/distribution/
• Visual Studio Code, https://code.visualstudio.com/
• Adam Geitgey, https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition

My Posts

1. Detecting Faces with 20 lines in Python
2. Face Recognition with 20 lines in Python