MediaPipe Face Mesh

Table of contents

Overview
ML Pipeline
1. Models
Face Geometry Module
1. Key Concepts
  1. Metric 3D Space
  2. Canonical Face Model
2. Components
  1. Geometry Pipeline
  2. Effect Renderer
Solution APIs
Example Apps
1. Face Landmark Example
  1. Mobile
  2. Desktop
2. Face Effect Example
  1. Mobile
Resources

Overview

MediaPipe Face Mesh is a face geometry solution that estimates 468 3D face landmarks in real-time even on mobile devices. It employs machine learning (ML) to infer the 3D surface geometry, requiring only a single camera input without the need for a dedicated depth sensor. Utilizing lightweight model architectures together with GPU acceleration throughout the pipeline, the solution delivers real-time performance critical for live experiences.

Additionally, the solution is bundled with the Face Geometry module that bridges the gap between the face landmark estimation and useful real-time augmented reality (AR) applications. It establishes a metric 3D space and uses the face landmark screen positions to estimate face geometry within that space. The face geometry data consists of common 3D geometry primitives, including a face pose transformation matrix and a triangular face mesh. Under the hood, a lightweight statistical analysis method called Procrustes Analysis is employed to drive a robust, performant and portable logic. The analysis runs on CPU and has a minimal speed/memory footprint on top of the ML model inference.


Fig 1. AR effects utilizing facial surface geometry.

ML Pipeline

Our ML pipeline consists of two real-time deep neural network models that work together: A detector that operates on the full image and computes face locations and a 3D face landmark model that operates on those locations and predicts the approximate surface geometry via regression. Having the face accurately cropped drastically reduces the need for common data augmentations like affine transformations consisting of rotations, translation and scale changes. Instead it allows the network to dedicate most of its capacity towards coordinate prediction accuracy. In addition, in our pipeline the crops can also be generated based on the face landmarks identified in the previous frame, and only when the landmark model could no longer identify face presence is the face detector invoked to relocalize the face. This strategy is similar to that employed in our MediaPipe Hands solution, which uses a palm detector together with a hand landmark model.

The pipeline is implemented as a MediaPipe graph that uses a face landmark subgraph from the face landmark module, and renders using a dedicated face renderer subgraph. The face landmark subgraph internally uses a face_detection_subgraph from the face detection module.

Note: To visualize a graph, copy the graph and paste it into MediaPipe Visualizer. For more information on how to visualize its associated subgraphs, please see visualizer documentation.

Models

Face Detection Model

The face detector is the same BlazeFace model used in MediaPipe Face Detection. Please refer to MediaPipe Face Detection for details.

Face Landmark Model

For 3D face landmarks we employed transfer learning and trained a network with several objectives: the network simultaneously predicts 3D landmark coordinates on synthetic rendered data and 2D semantic contours on annotated real-world data. The resulting network provided us with reasonable 3D landmark predictions not just on synthetic but also on real-world data.

The 3D landmark network receives as input a cropped video frame without additional depth input. The model outputs the positions of the 3D points, as well as the probability of a face being present and reasonably aligned in the input. A common alternative approach is to predict a 2D heatmap for each landmark, but it is not amenable to depth prediction and has high computational costs for so many points. We further improve the accuracy and robustness of our model by iteratively bootstrapping and refining predictions. That way we can grow our dataset to increasingly challenging cases, such as grimaces, oblique angle and occlusions.

You can find more information about the face landmark model in this paper.


Fig 2. Face landmarks: the red box indicates the cropped area as input to the landmark model, the red dots represent the 468 landmarks in 3D, and the green lines connecting landmarks illustrate the contours around the eyes, eyebrows, lips and the entire face.

Attention Mesh Model

In addition to the Face Landmark Model we provide another model that applies attention to semantically meaningful face regions, and therefore predicting landmarks more accurately around lips, eyes and irises, at the expense of more compute. It enables applications like AR makeup and AR puppeteering.

The attention mesh model can be selected in the Solution APIs via the refine_landmarks option. You can also find more information about the model in this paper.


Fig 3. Attention Mesh: Overview of model architecture.

Face Geometry Module

The Face Landmark Model performs a single-camera face landmark detection in the screen coordinate space: the X- and Y- coordinates are normalized screen coordinates, while the Z coordinate is relative and is scaled as the X coodinate under the weak perspective projection camera model. This format is well-suited for some applications, however it does not directly enable the full spectrum of augmented reality (AR) features like aligning a virtual 3D object with a detected face.

The Face Geometry module moves away from the screen coordinate space towards a metric 3D space and provides necessary primitives to handle a detected face as a regular 3D object. By design, you’ll be able to use a perspective camera to project the final 3D scene back into the screen coordinate space with a guarantee that the face landmark positions are not changed.

Key Concepts

Metric 3D Space

The Metric 3D space established within the Face Geometry module is a right-handed orthonormal metric 3D coordinate space. Within the space, there is a virtual perspective camera located at the space origin and pointed in the negative direction of the Z-axis. In the current pipeline, it is assumed that the input camera frames are observed by exactly this virtual camera and therefore its parameters are later used to convert the screen landmark coordinates back into the Metric 3D space. The virtual camera parameters can be set freely, however for better results it is advised to set them as close to the real physical camera parameters as possible.


Fig 4. A visualization of multiple key elements in the Metric 3D space.

Canonical Face Model

The Canonical Face Model is a static 3D model of a human face, which follows the 468 3D face landmark topology of the Face Landmark Model. The model bears two important functions:

Defines metric units: the scale of the canonical face model defines the metric units of the Metric 3D space. A metric unit used by the default canonical face model is a centimeter;
Bridges static and runtime spaces: the face pose transformation matrix is - in fact - a linear map from the canonical face model into the runtime face landmark set estimated on each frame. This way, virtual 3D assets modeled around the canonical face model can be aligned with a tracked face by applying the face pose transformation matrix to them.

Components

Geometry Pipeline

The Geometry Pipeline is a key component, which is responsible for estimating face geometry objects within the Metric 3D space. On each frame, the following steps are executed in the given order:

Face landmark screen coordinates are converted into the Metric 3D space coordinates;
Face pose transformation matrix is estimated as a rigid linear mapping from the canonical face metric landmark set into the runtime face metric landmark set in a way that minimizes a difference between the two;
A face mesh is created using the runtime face metric landmarks as the vertex positions (XYZ), while both the vertex texture coordinates (UV) and the triangular topology are inherited from the canonical face model.

The geometry pipeline is implemented as a MediaPipe calculator. For your convenience, the face geometry pipeline calculator is bundled together with corresponding metadata into a unified MediaPipe subgraph. The face geometry format is defined as a Protocol Buffer message.

Effect Renderer

The Effect Renderer is a component, which serves as a working example of a face effect renderer. It targets the OpenGL ES 2.0 API to enable a real-time performance on mobile devices and supports the following rendering modes:

3D object rendering mode: a virtual object is aligned with a detected face to emulate an object attached to the face (example: glasses);
Face mesh rendering mode: a texture is stretched on top of the face mesh surface to emulate a face painting technique.

In both rendering modes, the face mesh is first rendered as an occluder straight into the depth buffer. This step helps to create a more believable effect via hiding invisible elements behind the face surface.

The effect renderer is implemented as a MediaPipe calculator.


Fig 5. An example of face effects rendered by the Face Geometry Effect Renderer.

Solution APIs

Configuration Options

Naming style and availability may differ slightly across platforms/languages.

static_image_mode

If set to false, the solution treats the input images as a video stream. It will try to detect faces in the first input images, and upon a successful detection further localizes the face landmarks. In subsequent images, once all max_num_faces faces are detected and the corresponding face landmarks are localized, it simply tracks those landmarks without invoking another detection until it loses track of any of the faces. This reduces latency and is ideal for processing video frames. If set to true, face detection runs on every input image, ideal for processing a batch of static, possibly unrelated, images. Default to false.

max_num_faces

Maximum number of faces to detect. Default to 1.

refine_landmarks

Whether to further refine the landmark coordinates around the eyes and lips, and output additional landmarks around the irises by applying the Attention Mesh Model. Default to false.

min_detection_confidence

Minimum confidence value ([0.0, 1.0]) from the face detection model for the detection to be considered successful. Default to 0.5.

min_tracking_confidence

Minimum confidence value ([0.0, 1.0]) from the landmark-tracking model for the face landmarks to be considered tracked successfully, or otherwise face detection will be invoked automatically on the next input image. Setting it to a higher value can increase robustness of the solution, at the expense of a higher latency. Ignored if static_image_mode is true, where face detection simply runs on every image. Default to 0.5.

Output

Naming style may differ slightly across platforms/languages.

multi_face_landmarks

Collection of detected/tracked faces, where each face is represented as a list of 468 face landmarks and each landmark is composed of x, y and z. x and y are normalized to [0.0, 1.0] by the image width and height respectively. z represents the landmark depth with the depth at center of the head being the origin, and the smaller the value the closer the landmark is to the camera. The magnitude of z uses roughly the same scale as x.

Python Solution API

Please first follow general instructions to install MediaPipe Python package, then learn more in the companion Python Colab and the usage example below.

Supported configuration options:

static_image_mode
max_num_faces
refine_landmarks
min_detection_confidence
min_tracking_confidence

import cv2
import mediapipe as mp
mp_drawing = mp.solutions.drawing_utils
mp_drawing_styles = mp.solutions.drawing_styles
mp_face_mesh = mp.solutions.face_mesh

# For static images:
IMAGE_FILES = []
drawing_spec = mp_drawing.DrawingSpec(thickness=1, circle_radius=1)
with mp_face_mesh.FaceMesh(
    static_image_mode=True,
    max_num_faces=1,
    refine_landmarks=True,
    min_detection_confidence=0.5) as face_mesh:
  for idx, file in enumerate(IMAGE_FILES):
    image = cv2.imread(file)
    # Convert the BGR image to RGB before processing.
    results = face_mesh.process(cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB))

    # Print and draw face mesh landmarks on the image.
    if not results.multi_face_landmarks:
      continue
    annotated_image = image.copy()
    for face_landmarks in results.multi_face_landmarks:
      print('face_landmarks:', face_landmarks)
      mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(
          image=annotated_image,
          landmark_list=face_landmarks,
          connections=mp_face_mesh.FACEMESH_TESSELATION,
          landmark_drawing_spec=None,
          connection_drawing_spec=mp_drawing_styles
          .get_default_face_mesh_tesselation_style())
      mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(
          image=annotated_image,
          landmark_list=face_landmarks,
          connections=mp_face_mesh.FACEMESH_CONTOURS,
          landmark_drawing_spec=None,
          connection_drawing_spec=mp_drawing_styles
          .get_default_face_mesh_contours_style())
      mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(
          image=annotated_image,
          landmark_list=face_landmarks,
          connections=mp_face_mesh.FACEMESH_IRISES,
          landmark_drawing_spec=None,
          connection_drawing_spec=mp_drawing_styles
          .get_default_face_mesh_iris_connections_style())
    cv2.imwrite('/tmp/annotated_image' + str(idx) + '.png', annotated_image)

# For webcam input:
drawing_spec = mp_drawing.DrawingSpec(thickness=1, circle_radius=1)
cap = cv2.VideoCapture(0)
with mp_face_mesh.FaceMesh(
    max_num_faces=1,
    refine_landmarks=True,
    min_detection_confidence=0.5,
    min_tracking_confidence=0.5) as face_mesh:
  while cap.isOpened():
    success, image = cap.read()
    if not success:
      print("Ignoring empty camera frame.")
      # If loading a video, use 'break' instead of 'continue'.
      continue

    # To improve performance, optionally mark the image as not writeable to
    # pass by reference.
    image.flags.writeable = False
    image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
    results = face_mesh.process(image)

    # Draw the face mesh annotations on the image.
    image.flags.writeable = True
    image = cv2.cvtColor(image, cv2.COLOR_RGB2BGR)
    if results.multi_face_landmarks:
      for face_landmarks in results.multi_face_landmarks:
        mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(
            image=image,
            landmark_list=face_landmarks,
            connections=mp_face_mesh.FACEMESH_TESSELATION,
            landmark_drawing_spec=None,
            connection_drawing_spec=mp_drawing_styles
            .get_default_face_mesh_tesselation_style())
        mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(
            image=image,
            landmark_list=face_landmarks,
            connections=mp_face_mesh.FACEMESH_CONTOURS,
            landmark_drawing_spec=None,
            connection_drawing_spec=mp_drawing_styles
            .get_default_face_mesh_contours_style())
        mp_drawing.draw_landmarks(
            image=image,
            landmark_list=face_landmarks,
            connections=mp_face_mesh.FACEMESH_IRISES,
            landmark_drawing_spec=None,
            connection_drawing_spec=mp_drawing_styles
            .get_default_face_mesh_iris_connections_style())
    # Flip the image horizontally for a selfie-view display.
    cv2.imshow('MediaPipe Face Mesh', cv2.flip(image, 1))
    if cv2.waitKey(5) & 0xFF == 27:
      break
cap.release()

JavaScript Solution API

Please first see general introduction on MediaPipe in JavaScript, then learn more in the companion web demo and the following usage example.

Supported configuration options:

maxNumFaces
refineLandmarks
minDetectionConfidence
minTrackingConfidence

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mediapipe/camera_utils/camera_utils.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mediapipe/control_utils/control_utils.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mediapipe/drawing_utils/drawing_utils.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mediapipe/face_mesh/face_mesh.js" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <div class="container">
    <video class="input_video"></video>
    <canvas class="output_canvas" width="1280px" height="720px"></canvas>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

<script type="module">
const videoElement = document.getElementsByClassName('input_video')[0];
const canvasElement = document.getElementsByClassName('output_canvas')[0];
const canvasCtx = canvasElement.getContext('2d');

function onResults(results) {
  canvasCtx.save();
  canvasCtx.clearRect(0, 0, canvasElement.width, canvasElement.height);
  canvasCtx.drawImage(
      results.image, 0, 0, canvasElement.width, canvasElement.height);
  if (results.multiFaceLandmarks) {
    for (const landmarks of results.multiFaceLandmarks) {
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_TESSELATION,
                     {color: '#C0C0C070', lineWidth: 1});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_RIGHT_EYE, {color: '#FF3030'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_RIGHT_EYEBROW, {color: '#FF3030'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_RIGHT_IRIS, {color: '#FF3030'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_LEFT_EYE, {color: '#30FF30'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_LEFT_EYEBROW, {color: '#30FF30'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_LEFT_IRIS, {color: '#30FF30'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_FACE_OVAL, {color: '#E0E0E0'});
      drawConnectors(canvasCtx, landmarks, FACEMESH_LIPS, {color: '#E0E0E0'});
    }
  }
  canvasCtx.restore();
}

const faceMesh = new FaceMesh({locateFile: (file) => {
  return `https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mediapipe/face_mesh/${file}`;
}});
faceMesh.setOptions({
  maxNumFaces: 1,
  refineLandmarks: true,
  minDetectionConfidence: 0.5,
  minTrackingConfidence: 0.5
});
faceMesh.onResults(onResults);

const camera = new Camera(videoElement, {
  onFrame: async () => {
    await faceMesh.send({image: videoElement});
  },
  width: 1280,
  height: 720
});
camera.start();
</script>

Android Solution API

Please first follow general instructions to add MediaPipe Gradle dependencies and try the Android Solution API in the companion example Android Studio project, and learn more in the usage example below.

Supported configuration options:

staticImageMode
maxNumFaces
refineLandmarks
runOnGpu: Run the pipeline and the model inference on GPU or CPU.

Camera Input

// For camera input and result rendering with OpenGL.
FaceMeshOptions faceMeshOptions =
    FaceMeshOptions.builder()
        .setStaticImageMode(false)
        .setRefineLandmarks(true)
        .setMaxNumFaces(1)
        .setRunOnGpu(true).build();
FaceMesh faceMesh = new FaceMesh(this, faceMeshOptions);
faceMesh.setErrorListener(
    (message, e) -> Log.e(TAG, "MediaPipe Face Mesh error:" + message));

// Initializes a new CameraInput instance and connects it to MediaPipe Face Mesh Solution.
CameraInput cameraInput = new CameraInput(this);
cameraInput.setNewFrameListener(
    textureFrame -> faceMesh.send(textureFrame));

// Initializes a new GlSurfaceView with a ResultGlRenderer<FaceMeshResult> instance
// that provides the interfaces to run user-defined OpenGL rendering code.
// See mediapipe/examples/android/solutions/facemesh/src/main/java/com/google/mediapipe/examples/facemesh/FaceMeshResultGlRenderer.java
// as an example.
SolutionGlSurfaceView<FaceMeshResult> glSurfaceView =
    new SolutionGlSurfaceView<>(
        this, faceMesh.getGlContext(), faceMesh.getGlMajorVersion());
glSurfaceView.setSolutionResultRenderer(new FaceMeshResultGlRenderer());
glSurfaceView.setRenderInputImage(true);

faceMesh.setResultListener(
    faceMeshResult -> {
      NormalizedLandmark noseLandmark =
          result.multiFaceLandmarks().get(0).getLandmarkList().get(1);
      Log.i(
          TAG,
          String.format(
              "MediaPipe Face Mesh nose normalized coordinates (value range: [0, 1]): x=%f, y=%f",
              noseLandmark.getX(), noseLandmark.getY()));
      // Request GL rendering.
      glSurfaceView.setRenderData(faceMeshResult);
      glSurfaceView.requestRender();
    });

// The runnable to start camera after the GLSurfaceView is attached.
glSurfaceView.post(
    () ->
        cameraInput.start(
            this,
            faceMesh.getGlContext(),
            CameraInput.CameraFacing.FRONT,
            glSurfaceView.getWidth(),
            glSurfaceView.getHeight()));

Image Input

// For reading images from gallery and drawing the output in an ImageView.
FaceMeshOptions faceMeshOptions =
    FaceMeshOptions.builder()
        .setStaticImageMode(true)
        .setRefineLandmarks(true)
        .setMaxNumFaces(1)
        .setRunOnGpu(true).build();
FaceMesh faceMesh = new FaceMesh(this, faceMeshOptions);

// Connects MediaPipe Face Mesh Solution to the user-defined ImageView instance
// that allows users to have the custom drawing of the output landmarks on it.
// See mediapipe/examples/android/solutions/facemesh/src/main/java/com/google/mediapipe/examples/facemesh/FaceMeshResultImageView.java
// as an example.
FaceMeshResultImageView imageView = new FaceMeshResultImageView(this);
faceMesh.setResultListener(
    faceMeshResult -> {
      int width = faceMeshResult.inputBitmap().getWidth();
      int height = faceMeshResult.inputBitmap().getHeight();
      NormalizedLandmark noseLandmark =
          result.multiFaceLandmarks().get(0).getLandmarkList().get(1);
      Log.i(
          TAG,
          String.format(
              "MediaPipe Face Mesh nose coordinates (pixel values): x=%f, y=%f",
              noseLandmark.getX() * width, noseLandmark.getY() * height));
      // Request canvas drawing.
      imageView.setFaceMeshResult(faceMeshResult);
      runOnUiThread(() -> imageView.update());
    });
faceMesh.setErrorListener(
    (message, e) -> Log.e(TAG, "MediaPipe Face Mesh error:" + message));

// ActivityResultLauncher to get an image from the gallery as Bitmap.
ActivityResultLauncher<Intent> imageGetter =
    registerForActivityResult(
        new ActivityResultContracts.StartActivityForResult(),
        result -> {
          Intent resultIntent = result.getData();
          if (resultIntent != null && result.getResultCode() == RESULT_OK) {
            Bitmap bitmap = null;
            try {
              bitmap =
                  MediaStore.Images.Media.getBitmap(
                      this.getContentResolver(), resultIntent.getData());
              // Please also rotate the Bitmap based on its orientation.
            } catch (IOException e) {
              Log.e(TAG, "Bitmap reading error:" + e);
            }
            if (bitmap != null) {
              faceMesh.send(bitmap);
            }
          }
        });
Intent pickImageIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
pickImageIntent.setDataAndType(MediaStore.Images.Media.INTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, "image/*");
imageGetter.launch(pickImageIntent);

Video Input

// For video input and result rendering with OpenGL.
FaceMeshOptions faceMeshOptions =
    FaceMeshOptions.builder()
        .setStaticImageMode(false)
        .setRefineLandmarks(true)
        .setMaxNumFaces(1)
        .setRunOnGpu(true).build();
FaceMesh faceMesh = new FaceMesh(this, faceMeshOptions);
faceMesh.setErrorListener(
    (message, e) -> Log.e(TAG, "MediaPipe Face Mesh error:" + message));

// Initializes a new VideoInput instance and connects it to MediaPipe Face Mesh Solution.
VideoInput videoInput = new VideoInput(this);
videoInput.setNewFrameListener(
    textureFrame -> faceMesh.send(textureFrame));

// Initializes a new GlSurfaceView with a ResultGlRenderer<FaceMeshResult> instance
// that provides the interfaces to run user-defined OpenGL rendering code.
// See mediapipe/examples/android/solutions/facemesh/src/main/java/com/google/mediapipe/examples/facemesh/FaceMeshResultGlRenderer.java
// as an example.
SolutionGlSurfaceView<FaceMeshResult> glSurfaceView =
    new SolutionGlSurfaceView<>(
        this, faceMesh.getGlContext(), faceMesh.getGlMajorVersion());
glSurfaceView.setSolutionResultRenderer(new FaceMeshResultGlRenderer());
glSurfaceView.setRenderInputImage(true);

faceMesh.setResultListener(
    faceMeshResult -> {
      NormalizedLandmark noseLandmark =
          result.multiFaceLandmarks().get(0).getLandmarkList().get(1);
      Log.i(
          TAG,
          String.format(
              "MediaPipe Face Mesh nose normalized coordinates (value range: [0, 1]): x=%f, y=%f",
              noseLandmark.getX(), noseLandmark.getY()));
      // Request GL rendering.
      glSurfaceView.setRenderData(faceMeshResult);
      glSurfaceView.requestRender();
    });

ActivityResultLauncher<Intent> videoGetter =
    registerForActivityResult(
        new ActivityResultContracts.StartActivityForResult(),
        result -> {
          Intent resultIntent = result.getData();
          if (resultIntent != null) {
            if (result.getResultCode() == RESULT_OK) {
              glSurfaceView.post(
                  () ->
                      videoInput.start(
                          this,
                          resultIntent.getData(),
                          faceMesh.getGlContext(),
                          glSurfaceView.getWidth(),
                          glSurfaceView.getHeight()));
            }
          }
        });
Intent pickVideoIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK);
pickVideoIntent.setDataAndType(MediaStore.Video.Media.INTERNAL_CONTENT_URI, "video/*");
videoGetter.launch(pickVideoIntent);

Example Apps

Please first see general instructions for Android, iOS and desktop on how to build MediaPipe examples.

Note: To visualize a graph, copy the graph and paste it into MediaPipe Visualizer. For more information on how to visualize its associated subgraphs, please see visualizer documentation.

Face Landmark Example

Face landmark example showcases real-time, cross-platform face landmark detection. For visual reference, please refer to Fig. 2.

Mobile

Graph: mediapipe/graphs/face_mesh/face_mesh_mobile.pbtxt
Android target: (or download prebuilt ARM64 APK) mediapipe/examples/android/src/java/com/google/mediapipe/apps/facemeshgpu:facemeshgpu
iOS target: mediapipe/examples/ios/facemeshgpu:FaceMeshGpuApp

Tip: Maximum number of faces to detect/process is set to 1 by default. To change it, for Android modify NUM_FACES in MainActivity.java, and for iOS modify kNumFaces in FaceMeshGpuViewController.mm.

Desktop

Running on CPU
- Graph: mediapipe/graphs/face_mesh/face_mesh_desktop_live.pbtxt
- Target: mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh:face_mesh_cpu
Running on GPU
- Graph: mediapipe/graphs/face_mesh/face_mesh_desktop_live_gpu.pbtxt
- Target: mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh:face_mesh_gpu

Tip: Maximum number of faces to detect/process is set to 1 by default. To change it, in the graph file modify the option of ConstantSidePacketCalculator.

Face Effect Example

Face effect example showcases real-time mobile face effect application use case for the Face Mesh solution. To enable a better user experience, this example only works for a single face. For visual reference, please refer to Fig. 4.

Mobile

Graph: mediapipe/graphs/face_effect/face_effect_gpu.pbtxt
Android target: (or download prebuilt ARM64 APK) mediapipe/examples/android/src/java/com/google/mediapipe/apps/faceeffect
iOS target: mediapipe/examples/ios/faceeffect

Resources

Google AI Blog: Real-Time AR Self-Expression with Machine Learning
TensorFlow Blog: Face and hand tracking in the browser with MediaPipe and TensorFlow.js
Google Developers Blog: MediaPipe 3D Face Transform
Paper: Real-time Facial Surface Geometry from Monocular Video on Mobile GPUs (poster)
Canonical face model: FBX, OBJ, UV visualization
Models and model cards
Web demo
Python Colab