openpose VS mediapipe

Open Pose, a multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation [10], is used for posing generated characters;

OpenPose

Perhaps something like OpenPose for pose estimation?

OpenPose looks like what you're looking for, it seems to have plugins for Unity. I can't say I've used it though.

You are correct. Open Pose has two keypoints for the eyes and two more for the ears. By saying were the ears are you automatically influence the angle of the head. You can see more about it on this github page. Just scroll a tiny bit and you can see a gif of the nodes overlapped on humans

FROM nvidia/cuda:10.0-cudnn7-devel-ubuntu18.04 # https://hub.docker.com/r/nvidia/cuda ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive # install the dependencies for building OpenPose RUN apt-get update && # The rest is ignored for brevity. RUN pip3 install --no-cache-dir # The rest is ignored for brevity. # install cmake, clone OpenPose and download models RUN wget https://cmake.org/files/v3.20/cmake-3.20.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz && \ # The rest is ignored for brevity. WORKDIR /openpose/build RUN alias python=python3 && cmake -DBUILD_PYTHON=OFF -DWITH_GTK=OFF -DUSE_CUDNN=ON .. # Build OpenPose. Cudnn 8 causes memory issues this is why we are using base with CUDA 10 and Cudnn 7 # Fix for CUDA 10.0 and Cudnn 7 based on the post below. # https://github.com/CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose/issues/1753#issuecomment-792431838 RUN sed -ie 's/set(AMPERE "80 86")/#&/g' ../cmake/Cuda.cmake && \ sed -ie 's/set(AMPERE "80 86")/#&/g' ../3rdparty/caffe/cmake/Cuda.cmake && \ make -j`nproc` && \ make install WORKDIR /openpose

One of the best cam only libraries (no depth sensor) I've seen is openpose, I ran it through a 360 camera and it was able to track body, face, and fingers really well even with spherical distortion from the 360 cam. example 360

mediapipe/docs/solutions/pose.md at master · google/mediapipe · GitHub

Today, we announce MediaPipe diffusion plugins, which enable controllable text-to-image generation to be run on-device. Expanding upon our prior work on GPU inference for on-device large generative models, we introduce new low-cost solutions for controllable text-to-image generation that can be plugged into existing diffusion models and their Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) variants.

You can just grab the TFLite version! https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/docs/solutions/models.md

I believe Google already released transformers under an apache 2 license with a patent grant:

https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/mo...

I was going to say that I like the MediaPipe Selfie Segmentation model for doing this sort of thing in a web page, but I've just noticed (when getting the GitHub link[1]) that Google have marked the code as legacy[2] ... no idea if the new solution is better/easier to use[3].

For what it's worth, my CodePen using the old model is here: https://codepen.io/kaliedarik/pen/PopBxBM

[1] - https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/docs/solutio...

[2] - "Attention: Thank you for your interest in MediaPipe Solutions. As of April 4, 2023, this solution was upgraded to a new MediaPipe Solution."

[3] - https://developers.google.com/mediapipe/solutions/vision/ima...

I have used mediapipe very successfully in multiple projects and it's very easy to get running. You can choose from many different vision tasks including hand landmarks ( https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/docs/solutions/hands.md )

I found MediaPipe's Face Mesh and was impressed with how simple it was to get going, but it just gives you the landmark points and I've not gone any further yet.

We've trained ControlNet on a subset of the LAION-Face dataset using modified output from MediaPipe's face mesh annotator to provide a new level of control when generating images of faces.

Medipaipe library link: https://mediapipe.dev/