Background

Generate GIF file that records the daily variations on your face in a period of time.
Detection and alignment are appied to calibrate the pose and position of faces.

Requirements

opencv-python
dlib
imageio
urllib

Usage

1. Download model

python download.py

or manually download with the following url and move to ./dat/

dlib-5pts_shape_predictor
dlib-68pts_shape_predictor

2. Decompress the .bz2 files

3. Daily running to record face image.

python run.py

4. Crop faces and generate GIF file with the recorded faces

python process.py

Some important parameters in config.py

FACE_FACTOR = 0.55 #face size in the cropped image 
CROP_FACTOR_W = 0.75 #width of the cropped image
CROP_FACTOR_H = 1.0 #height of the cropped image
OFFSET_FACTOR_W = 0.5 #face center offset_x
OFFSET_FACTOR_H = 0.65 #face center offset_y