Blender & OpenCV - Windows Guide - Facial Motion Capture

This is a step by step guide to install OpenCV for use in Blender and configure the Vincent model to capture facial landmarks.


Github Repository:
https://github.com/jkirsons/FacialMot...


Download trained model lbfmodel.yaml (note - this is not for commercial use)
https://github.com/kurnianggoro/GSOC2...


Prerequisite Steps:
Open Command Prompt as Administrator
cd "C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender 2.81\2.81\python\bin"
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install opencv-contrib-python numpy


Then follow the Vincent model configuration steps in the video.




Citations:
C. Sagonas, E. Antonakos, G, Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic. 300 faces In-the-wild challenge: Database and results. Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS), Special Issue on Facial Landmark Localisation "In-The-Wild". 2016.

C. Sagonas, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic. 300 Faces in-the-Wild Challenge: The first facial landmark localization Challenge. Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV-W), 300 Faces in-the-Wild Challenge (300-W). Sydney, Australia, December 2013.

C. Sagonas, G. Tzimiropoulos, S. Zafeiriou, M. Pantic. A semi-automatic methodology for facial landmark annotation. Proceedings of IEEE Int’l Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR-W), 5th Workshop on Analysis and Modeling of Faces and Gestures (AMFG 2013). Oregon, USA, June 2013.