Facial Recognition

Inspiration Codex

During the Nvidia workshop, the presenter showed a video of their movements being traced and replicated by a digital model so that served as the inspiration to try and recreate that simulation. This project is really our introduction and experimentation using Codex and considering the limited amount of time at our disposal we think it did the general job of having our digital model, Homer (since season 38 premiers today), mimic my facial expressions continuously based of the captured input from the webcam. At its core it is working, although there is room for improvement involved with how the facial expression are captured and categorized. Also we tried to implement an option for the mouth movements to be based off what is said, although that was another challenge with I think correlating what is said and how it would show on Homer.