BoRMaN - Boosted Regression with Markov Networks for facial point detection

IMPORTANT: BoRMaN is compiled for Windows Vista, 32 bit. 


BoRMaN detects 20 fiducial facial points. For a detailed description of the algorithm, please refer to:

Michel F. Valstar, Brais Martinez, Xavier Binefa, and Maja Pantic. 'Facial Point Detection using Boosted Regression and Graph Models', IEEE Int'l Conf. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, pp. 2729-2736, San Francisco, USA, June 2010


If you don't have the matlab runtime component installed, or have a different Matlab version than 2010b, then please download and install the Matlab Component Runtime from

http://ibug.doc.ic.ac.uk/resources/facial-point-detector-2010/


To run BoRMaN, go to a command shell and run:

For directory with files:

BoRMaN.exe directory_path extension

For avi file:
BoRMaN.exe directory_path


IN:
- "directory_path" is the path to a directory containing either an avi file or a set of images. 
- "extension" is OPTIONAL. If not introduced and "directory_path" is a folder, then it will search for all the .png files

OUT:
The program creates the following files in the same directory as the image:
- an xml with the detected point information
- a .mat with a matlab data file containing the detected points
- a .jpg file with the original image and the detected points marked on top

Please refer to the article to see the definition of point locations and the names used in the XML file.


Please not that you can call the function from Matlab by using the function "system". It takes as input a string as you would call the function from the command prompt