FaceMovie

FaceMovie is a simple project that aims at helping you create videos of yourself over time, using photos as input. I see a growing interest for this kind of projects, where people take one picture of themselves a day for several months (years ?) and compile it into a video. I started this project for a friend currently travelling around the world. He wanted to create a video of his face changes along the trip.

The main idea is simple. The software takes a batch of images as input. The images are assumed to be named by date (so that an alphabetical order is also the chronological order). The output is a video containing each image, where the face is always placed in the same position. This way, people can actually see the face change over time.

You can check out the last results in video here !

**In progress: **

The very central part of the code is finished.
I currently work on video quality enhancement (compression, speed, fade effects, ...)
I plan to include a GUI to help people use the software, and later add support for a broader type of input images (profiles, eyes, glasses, . . .)
I also think about a way for user to help the software in case it struggles with images (by manually pointing face on problematic images?).
Any other idea is welcome

Getting started

Libraries

This piece of code is developed in Python, simply because I love it :P (and because it allows easy testing while developing Image Processing applications). I used Python 2.7 for development. The only library needed to run the code for now is Opencv (and by extension Numpy). See the documentation for more information.

This project is developed on a Windows (7) platform, but there should (and, as a fanatic Linux User, will) be no compatibility problems with UNIX.

License

This project is released under the new BSD license (3 clause version). You can read more about the license in the LICENSE file.

Contact

I would enjoy having feedback if you like this idea, or even used it (even though you should change the source code to run it for now :) ). I would also like to know if you have heard about any other solution to make this kind of stuff ! (Couldn't find any but this Iphone app on the internet !) Feel free to mail me for any comment or request.

You can contact me at julien at lengrand dot fr, or on my current website.