animeface

python-animeface

python-animeface is a Python wrapper of AnimeFace, a library to detect anime character faces in images.

See also the official website of AnimeFace (in Japanese language).

Installation

You can install this module with PIP.

pip install animeface

In case a Python binary package (wheel) is not available for your environment, you need to install libnvxs (the original AnimeFace library) before installing python-animeface. The source code of libnvxs is included in this repository.

cd third_party/nvxs-1.0.2
./configure
make
sudo make install

Usage

>>> import animeface
>>> import PIL.Image
>>> im = PIL.Image.open('/path/to/image.jpg')
>>> faces = animeface.detect(im)
>>> faces
[<animeface.Face likelihood=1.000000 face=<pos=(295, 90; 182, 182)> skin=<color=(253, 226, 212)> hair=<color=(199, 194, 196)> left_eye=<pos=(408, 134; 34, 42), color=(92, 42, 49)> right_eye=<pos=(316, 137; 55, 48), color=(79, 33, 39)> mouth=<pos=(372, 202; 32, 23)> nose=<pos=(397, 186)> chin=<pos=(377, 242)>>]
>>> fp = faces[0].face.pos
>>> print(fp.x, fp.y, fp.width, fp.height)
295 90 182 182

See animeface/__init__.py for the API definitions.

License

python-animeface is licenced under Apache License.

The original AnimeFace library is licenced under NYSL.