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Re:Toonify Yourself by marvindanig on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:06PM (#24494688)
Ah! Gets excited.

1. Clicks on the browse button to find a good selfie.

2. Uploads the pic to Toonify.

3. Clicks on 'Toonify' button:

> Failed: Didn't find any faces in the supplied image.

Ack what? Ok. The machine is still learning.

(P.S: I like the project though. Hope it will improve over time. But toonification of any pic without deep learning/machine learning thrown into the mix is already a solved problem, no?)

Re:Toonify Yourself by justinpinkney on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:24PM (#24494913)
We're using dlib's frontal face detector for the face detection. It's ok, but certainly not state of the art, maybe in the future I'll find a better face detector...
Re:Toonify Yourself by sillysaurusx on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @06:04PM (#24498527)
The way I solved this for Faceweave is, if no face detected, let the operation proceed anyway. This gives the user the ability to line up the face themselves.

The logic is basically: ask dlib for face landmarks; if no landmarks, resize image to 1024x1024 and proceed; otherwise align face.

If you happen to like lisp: https://github.com/shawwn/stylegan-server/blob/10c396fa2ef07...

Also, congratulations on launching this! Super exciting.

Readers, if you use twitter, be sure to follow the creators:

Justin https://twitter.com/Buntworthy

Doron https://twitter.com/Norod78

Been following them for like twenty years now. They tweet a bunch of awesome stuff about ML, and stylegan in particular.

Re:Toonify Yourself by jtsiskin on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @02:54PM (#24496101)
At you on iPhone?

Rotate your phone 90° clockwise then try again.

By default the portrait image will be rotated, causing the face detection to fail. I know this because I‘ve run in to the same problem before, had to correct it server side :)

Re:Toonify Yourself by matthewfcarlson on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:10PM (#24494724)
Same here- looks incredible but no face found :(
Re:Toonify Yourself by justinpinkney on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @03:46PM (#24496782)
If you were trying on iphone this should probably work now.
Re:Toonify Yourself by stanski on Wednesday September 16, 2020 @01:30PM (#24494978)
I tried my face with two different backgrounds but nothing. I guess I just have one of those faces! (might be a good thing)
Re:Toonify Yourself by mnsc on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:39AM (#24501823)
FAQ 1: My face is not detected.

Answer: Please check that your genetics is compatible with ML?

https://www.wired.com/story/best-algorithms-struggle-recogni...