mediapipe/mediapipe/docs/face_mesh_desktop.md

Face Mesh on Desktop with Webcam

This doc focuses on running the MediaPipe Face Mesh pipeline to perform 3D face landmark estimation in real-time on desktop with webcam input. The pipeline internally incorporates TensorFlow Lite models. To know more about the models, please refer to the model README file. Moreover, if you are interested in running the same pipeline on Android/iOS, please see Face Mesh on Android/iOS.

• Face Mesh on Desktop with Webcam (CPU)

• Face Mesh on Desktop with Webcam (GPU)

Note: Desktop GPU works only on Linux. Mesa drivers need to be installed. Please see step 4 of "Installing on Debian and Ubuntu" in the installation guide.

Note: If MediaPipe depends on OpenCV 2, please see the known issues with OpenCV 2 section.

Face Mesh on Desktop with Webcam (CPU)

To build and run Face Mesh on desktop with webcam (CPU), run:

$ bazel build -c opt --define MEDIAPIPE_DISABLE_GPU=1 \
    mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh:face_mesh_cpu

# It should print:
# Target //mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh:face_mesh_cpu up-to-date:
#  bazel-bin/mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh/face_mesh_cpu

# This will open up your webcam as long as it is connected. Errors are likely
# due to your webcam being not accessible.
$ GLOG_logtostderr=1 bazel-bin/mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh/face_mesh_cpu \
    --calculator_graph_config_file=mediapipe/graphs/face_mesh/face_mesh_desktop_live.pbtxt

Face Mesh on Desktop with Webcam (GPU)

Note: please first check that your GPU is supported.

To build and run Face Mesh on desktop with webcam (GPU), run:

# This works only for linux currently
$ bazel build -c opt --copt -DMESA_EGL_NO_X11_HEADERS --copt -DEGL_NO_X11 \
    mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh:face_mesh_gpu

# It should print:
# Target //mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh:face_mesh_gpu up-to-date:
#  bazel-bin/mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh/face_mesh_gpu

# This will open up your webcam as long as it is connected. Errors are likely
# due to your webcam being not accessible, or GPU drivers not setup properly.
$ GLOG_logtostderr=1 bazel-bin/mediapipe/examples/desktop/face_mesh/face_mesh_gpu \
    --calculator_graph_config_file=mediapipe/graphs/face_mesh/face_mesh_desktop_live_gpu.pbtxt