Landmarks location on face / map of landmarks

[leolellisr]

Congratulations on your great work and thanks for sharing it.

Is there any reference to the location of the landmarks on face (or a map of the landmarks) generated with _denseflag = True (the estimated 38k points)? Something like dlib in this image? https://pyimagesearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/facial_landmarks_68markup.jpg

When _denseflag = False, the location of the points is the same as the dlib, right?

I appreciate the attention.

[cleardusk]

With dense_flag = False, the outputted 68 landmarks ought to be consistent with Dlib.

[dtoniolo]

When _denseflag = False, the location of the points is the same as the dlib, right?

I'd like only to point out that the orientations x and y axis of the point clouds produced by 3DDFA are reversed, so you might need to keep that in mind to avoid inconsistencies¹.

¹ I've only verified this statement for the 68 landmarks, therefore I'm not sure about the other output types

[leolellisr]

Thanks guys, that helped!

How about the z-coordinate returned by 3DDFA? Is there any reference that shows the production or calculation of these values?

Thanks again!

[dtoniolo]

Here's what I figured out. 3DDFA uses an orthographic camera model (source: 3DDFA paper, equation 4)(see last section of these notes). So the transformation steps from a 3d mesh in BFM's system of coordinates should be the following:

1. 3d rototranslation to allow for pose
2. orthographic projection
3. scaling (used to allow for apparent size change due to prospective, that the orthographic projection can't account for)
4. transformation to image coordinates (array convention). This involves:
   • inverting the y axis
   • scaling everything by the spatial resolution of the sensor
   • translating both x and y by half the image size so that the origin is in the upper left corner

The relevant sections of the code seem to be TDDFA.recon_verts() and similar_transform(). It seems that the scaling is done not with respect to the image size, but to the bounding box size. Moreover, the z axis is scaled by the average of the scale factors used of the x and y axis.

However, I'm not sure of my conclusions and it's not clear to me why the scaling is done in this manner.

Finally, even though I did my fair share of digging into the code, I wasn't able to figure out the following:

• are images rescaled before being fed into TDDFA?
• what are the assumed physical and pixel sizes of the image sensor?

It's not much, admittedly, but hopefully this can help you get a better grip on this paper😉

[tkzky]

Hello! I have some question about the z axis. I'd like to know does the Z coordinate represent the depth information of the landmarks? Looking forward to your reply!

[lewisandJiang]

With dense_flag = False, the outputted 68 landmarks ought to be consistent with Dlib.

Hi, how can i get 68 landmarks?

[lewisandJiang]

Congratulations on your great work and thanks for sharing it.

Is there any reference to the location of the landmarks on face (or a map of the landmarks) generated with _denseflag = True (the estimated 38k points)? Something like dlib in this image? https://pyimagesearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/facial_landmarks_68markup.jpg

When _denseflag = False, the location of the points is the same as the dlib, right?

I appreciate the attention.

Hi, could you tell me how can i get 68 landmarks?

[chriscohoat]

From what I've been able to figure out so far ... the three most important lines in demo.py are:

param_lst, roi_box_lst = tddfa(img, boxes)
ver_lst = tddfa.recon_vers(param_lst, roi_box_lst, dense_flag=dense_flag)
draw_landmarks(img, ver_lst, show_flag=args.show_flag, dense_flag=dense_flag, wfp=wfp)

If you check out draw_landmarks, you'll see nums = [0, 17, 22, 27, 31, 36, 42, 48, 60, 68] which I've deduced is the following point groupings (in order): jaw, right eyebrow, left eyebrow, nose vertical, nose bottom, right eye, left eye, lips boundary, inner lips

The individual X and Y points are plotted with this line:

 plt.plot(pts[i][0, l:r], pts[i][1, l:r], marker='o', linestyle='None', markersize=markersize,  color=color, markeredgecolor=markeredgecolor, alpha=alpha)

This looks confusing, but it seems to be saying that the X points for the current group are pts[i][0, l:r] and the Y points are pts[i][1, l:r], which gives you a list of X and a list of Y points.

If you add an item that references pts[i][2, l:r] it seems like that may be the corresponding Z point, as it prints a valid list of numbers. I haven't confirmed that this number plots in the right place in a 3D plot, but it seems promising.

[anmolduainter]

I want to get dense landmarks location of a particular facial region example chin region? For this I think I need mapping information but I dont see any, is there any mapping information there for this?

[elias-Mimetrik]

The landmarks are stored inside the pickled file: https://github.com/cleardusk/3DDFA_V2/blob/master/configs/bfm_noneck_v3.pkl

data=pickle.load(open( "bfm_noneck_v3.pkl", "rb" ) )
keypoints = data['keypoints']