Summary:
I am using the Vision framework, in conjunction with AVFoundation, to detect facial landmarks of each face in the camera feed (by way of the VNDetectFaceLandmarksRequest). From here, I am taking the found observations and unprojecting each point to a SceneKit View (SCNView), then using those points as the vertices to draw a custom geometry that is textured with a material over each found face.
Effectively, I am working to recreate how an ARFaceTrackingConfiguration functions. In general, this task is functioning as expected, but only when my device is using the front camera in landscape right orientation. When I rotate my device, or switch to the rear camera, the unprojected points do not properly align with the found face as they do in landscape right/front camera.
Problem:
When testing this code, the mesh appears properly (that is, appears affixed to a user's face), but again, only when using the front camera in landscape right. While the code runs as expected (that is, generating the face mesh for each found face) in all orientations, the mesh is wildly misaligned in all other cases.
My belief is this issue either stems from my converting the face's bounding box (using VNImageRectForNormalizedRect, which I am calculating using the width/height of my SCNView, not my pixel buffer, which is typically much larger), though all modifications I have tried result in the same issue.
Outside of that, I also believe this could be an issue with my SCNCamera, as I am a bit unsure how the transform/projection matrix works and whether that would be needed here.
Sample of Vision Request Setup:
// Setup Vision request options
var requestHandlerOptions: [VNImageOption: AnyObject] = [:]
// Setup Camera Intrinsics
let cameraIntrinsicData = CMGetAttachment(sampleBuffer, key: kCMSampleBufferAttachmentKey_CameraIntrinsicMatrix, attachmentModeOut: nil)
if cameraIntrinsicData != nil {
requestHandlerOptions[VNImageOption.cameraIntrinsics] = cameraIntrinsicData
}
// Set EXIF orientation
let exifOrientation = self.exifOrientationForCurrentDeviceOrientation()
// Setup vision request handler
let handler = VNImageRequestHandler(cvPixelBuffer: pixelBuffer,
orientation: exifOrientation,
options: requestHandlerOptions)
// Setup the completion handler
let completion: VNRequestCompletionHandler = {request, error in
let observations = request.results as! [VNFaceObservation]
// Draw faces
DispatchQueue.main.async {
drawFaceGeometry(observations: observations)
}
}
// Setup the image request
let request = VNDetectFaceLandmarksRequest(completionHandler: completion)
// Handle the request
do {
try handler.perform([request])
} catch {
print(error)
}
Sample of SCNView Setup:
// Setup SCNView
let scnView = SCNView()
scnView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false
self.view.addSubview(scnView)
scnView.showsStatistics = true
NSLayoutConstraint.activate([
scnView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.leadingAnchor),
scnView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.topAnchor),
scnView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.bottomAnchor),
scnView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.view.trailingAnchor)
])
// Setup scene
let scene = SCNScene()
scnView.scene = scene
// Setup camera
let cameraNode = SCNNode()
let camera = SCNCamera()
cameraNode.camera = camera
scnView.scene?.rootNode.addChildNode(cameraNode)
cameraNode.position = SCNVector3(x: 0, y: 0, z: 16)
// Setup light
let ambientLightNode = SCNNode()
ambientLightNode.light = SCNLight()
ambientLightNode.light?.type = SCNLight.LightType.ambient
ambientLightNode.light?.color = UIColor.darkGray
scnView.scene?.rootNode.addChildNode(ambientLightNode)
Sample of "face processing"
func drawFaceGeometry(observations: [VNFaceObservation]) {
// An array of face nodes, one SCNNode for each detected face
var faceNode = [SCNNode]()
// The origin point
let projectedOrigin = sceneView.projectPoint(SCNVector3Zero)
// Iterate through each found face
for observation in observations {
// Setup a SCNNode for the face
let face = SCNNode()
// Setup the found bounds
let faceBounds = VNImageRectForNormalizedRect(observation.boundingBox, Int(self.scnView.bounds.width), Int(self.scnView.bounds.height))
// Verify we have landmarks
if let landmarks = observation.landmarks {
// Landmarks are relative to and normalized within face bounds
let affineTransform = CGAffineTransform(translationX: faceBounds.origin.x, y: faceBounds.origin.y)
.scaledBy(x: faceBounds.size.width, y: faceBounds.size.height)
// Add all points as vertices
var vertices = [SCNVector3]()
// Verify we have points
if let allPoints = landmarks.allPoints {
// Iterate through each point
for (index, point) in allPoints.normalizedPoints.enumerated() {
// Apply the transform to convert each point to the face's bounding box range
_ = index
let normalizedPoint = point.applying(affineTransform)
let projected = SCNVector3(normalizedPoint.x, normalizedPoint.y, CGFloat(projectedOrigin.z))
let unprojected = sceneView.unprojectPoint(projected)
vertices.append(unprojected)
}
}
// Setup Indices
var indices = [UInt16]()
// Add indices
// ... Removed for brevity ...
// Setup texture coordinates
var coordinates = [CGPoint]()
// Add texture coordinates
// ... Removed for brevity ...
// Setup texture image
let imageWidth = 2048.0
let normalizedCoordinates = coordinates.map { coord -> CGPoint in
let x = coord.x / CGFloat(imageWidth)
let y = coord.y / CGFloat(imageWidth)
let textureCoord = CGPoint(x: x, y: y)
return textureCoord
}
// Setup sources
let sources = SCNGeometrySource(vertices: vertices)
let textureCoordinates = SCNGeometrySource(textureCoordinates: normalizedCoordinates)
// Setup elements
let elements = SCNGeometryElement(indices: indices, primitiveType: .triangles)
// Setup Geometry
let geometry = SCNGeometry(sources: [sources, textureCoordinates], elements: [elements])
geometry.firstMaterial?.diffuse.contents = textureImage
// Setup node
let customFace = SCNNode(geometry: geometry)
sceneView.scene?.rootNode.addChildNode(customFace)
// Append the face to the face nodes array
faceNode.append(face)
}
// Iterate the face nodes and append to the scene
for node in faceNode {
sceneView.scene?.rootNode.addChildNode(node)
}
}