MediaPipe Facemesh

MediaPipe Facemesh is a lightweight machine learning pipeline predicting 486 3D facial landmarks to infer the approximate surface geometry of a human face (paper).

More background information about the model, as well as its performance characteristics on different datasets, can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VFC_wIpw4O7xBOiTgUldl79d9LA-LsnA/view

The model is designed for front-facing cameras on mobile devices, where faces in view tend to occupy a relatively large fraction of the canvas. MediaPipe Facemesh may struggle to identify far-away faces.

Check out our demo, which uses the model to detect facial landmarks in a live video stream.

This model is also available as part of MediaPipe, a framework for building multimodal applied ML pipelines.

Installation

Using yarn:

$ yarn add @tensorflow-models/facemesh

Using npm:

$ npm install @tensorflow-models/facemesh

Note that this package specifies @tensorflow/tfjs-core and @tensorflow/tfjs-converter as peer dependencies, so they will also need to be installed.

Usage

To import in npm:

const facemesh = require('@tensorflow-models/facemesh');

or as a standalone script tag:

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tensorflow/tfjs-core"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tensorflow/tfjs-converter"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tensorflow-models/facemesh"></script>

Then:

async function main() {
  // Load the MediaPipe facemesh model.
  const model = await facemesh.load();

  // Pass in a video stream (or an image, canvas, or 3D tensor) to obtain an
  // array of detected faces from the MediaPipe graph.
  const predictions = await model.estimateFaces(document.querySelector("video"));

  if (predictions.length > 0) {
    /*
    `predictions` is an array of objects describing each detected face, for example:

    [
      {
        faceInViewConfidence: 1, // The probability of a face being present.
        boundingBox: { // The bounding box surrounding the face.
          topLeft: [232.28, 145.26],
          bottomRight: [449.75, 308.36],
        },
        mesh: [ // The 3D coordinates of each facial landmark.
          [92.07, 119.49, -17.54],
          [91.97, 102.52, -30.54],
          ...
        ],
        scaledMesh: [ // The 3D coordinates of each facial landmark, normalized.
          [322.32, 297.58, -17.54],
          [322.18, 263.95, -30.54]
        ],
        annotations: { // Semantic groupings of the `scaledMesh` coordinates.
          silhouette: [
            [326.19, 124.72, -3.82],
            [351.06, 126.30, -3.00],
            ...
          ],
          ...
        }
      }
    ]
    */

    for (let i = 0; i < predictions.length; i++) {
      const keypoints = predictions[i].scaledMesh;

      // Log facial keypoints.
      for (let i = 0; i < keypoints.length; i++) {
        const [x, y, z] = keypoints[i];

        console.log(`Keypoint ${i}: [${x}, ${y}, ${z}]`);
      }
    }
  }
}

main();

Parameters for facemesh.load()

facemesh.load() takes a configuration object with the following properties:

• maxContinuousChecks - How many frames to go without running the bounding box detector. Only relevant if maxFaces > 1. Defaults to 5.

• detectionConfidence - Threshold for discarding a prediction. Defaults to 0.9.

• maxFaces - The maximum number of faces detected in the input. Should be set to the minimum number for performance. Defaults to 10.

• iouThreshold - A float representing the threshold for deciding whether boxes overlap too much in non-maximum suppression. Must be between [0, 1]. Defaults to 0.3.

• scoreThreshold - A threshold for deciding when to remove boxes based on score in non-maximum suppression. Defaults to 0.75.

Parameters for model.estimateFace()

• input - The image to classify. Can be a tensor, DOM element image, video, or canvas.

• returnTensors - (defaults to false) Whether to return tensors as opposed to values.

• flipHorizontal - Whether to flip/mirror the facial keypoints horizontally. Should be true for videos that are flipped by default (e.g. webcams).

Keypoints

Here is map of the keypoints:

The UV coordinates for these keypoints are available via the getUVCoords() method on the FaceMesh model object. They can also be found in src/uv_coords.ts.