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Facial Landmarks Detection with DLIB Library

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This week, my friend from my country started to do intership at University of Liverpool with me. Her name is Maksude Tuğçe Zile. We will work on a Project that involves measuring angles and distances between spesific landmarks in facial images. We will prefer to Python programming languages because my final Project was about opencv with python. We will try to place a point spesific landmarks in human's faces.(for instance we want to detect eye right outer and eye right inner etc. ) I am going to show how to detect eyes and eyebrows with opencv using dlib library.

What is Facial Landmark Detection ?

 Facial Landmark Detection is a computer vision topic and it deals with the problem of detecting distinctive features in human faces automatically.
  • Tip of the nose
  • Corners of the eyes
  • Corners of the eyebrows
  • Corners of the mouth
  • Eye pupils
The detected landmarks are used in several different applications.

 How to install Dlib ?

 Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real world problems.

We will use python programming language on Windows. To compile Dlib on Windows could be difficult. I have used steps shown as follow:

Step 1: Install Visual Studio 2015
Step 2: Install CMake v3.8.2
Step 3: Install Anaconda 3
Step 4: Download Dlib
Step 5: Build Dlib library
Step 6: Build Dlib examples
Step 7: Install Dlib’s Python modüle

For more details, you can visit this tutorial.

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