Is this even possible? Extract profile photo

Retrobatch
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It seems like ML might make this possible, with some allowance for error

I was recently putting together a directory of people. People could include photos in their listing. People have…different ideas about what makes a good profile photo, but they almost always include their face somewhere. For my purposes, I needed all the photos at the same aspect ratio and at a certain minimum resolution.

So here’s what I’d like to do: create a recipe that detects a face, crops around that face with a certain margin and aspect ratio, and scales the crop to a certain resolution. Maybe create a report showing low-confidence crops.

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Hello, and welcome!

I’m pretty sure what you want to do is possible with a custom JS plugin, and also using Apple APIs in the Vision framework (and along with Core Image).

But, it’s a lot of work, and you’ll need to be familiar with both JavaScript and Apple’s frameworks.

We have documentation on the API here:
https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/jsapi-1/

And a bunch of examples here:
https://flyingmeat.com/retrobatch/jsplugin/

This is a neat idea though, and maybe when things calm down a little bit over here I can take a stab at it.

3

Thanks. That’s above my level of expertise, and for my purposes, the juice wouldn’t be worth the squeeze.

4

I don’t know why I didn’t think of this - but there is the “Crop to Face” node under the Transform category. Maybe that would do what you’re after?

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Huh. That does work. I’ll need to experiment to get good results.