Profile Photo

Center + Crop Image to create a Profile Pic or Headshot.

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Install

Local tests:

The [all] extra installs boto3, which is excluded by default - this assumes an AWS environment.

$ pip install profile-photo[all]

AWS Lambda deployment:

$ pip install profile-photo

Features

• Exports a helper function, create_headshot, to create a close-up or headshot of the primary face in a photo or image.
• Leverages Amazon Rekognition to detect bounding boxes of a person's Face and relevant Labels, such as Person.
• Exposes helper methods to save the result image (cropped) as well as API responses to a local folder.

Usage

Basic usage, with a sample image:

from urllib.request import urlopen

from profile_photo import create_headshot


# Set the $AWS_PROFILE environment variable instead
aws_profile = 'my-profile'

im_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rnag/profile-photo/main/examples/woman-2.jpeg'
im_bytes = urlopen(im_url).read()

photo = create_headshot(im_bytes, profile=aws_profile)
photo.show()

An example with a local image, and saving the result image and API responses to a folder:

from __future__ import annotations

from profile_photo import create_headshot


# customize local file location for API responses
def get_filename(file_name: str | None, api: str):
    return f'responses/{file_name}_{api}.json'


photo = create_headshot('/path/to/image')

# this saves image and API responses to a results/ folder
# can also be achieved by passing `output_dir` above
photo.save_all('results', get_response_filename=get_filename)

# display before-and-after images
photo.show()

Lastly, an example with an image on S3, and passing in cached Rekognition API responses for the image:

from pathlib import Path

from profile_photo import create_headshot


s3_image_path = Path('path/to/image.jpg')
responses_dir = Path('./my/responses')

_photo = create_headshot(bucket='my-bucket',
                         key=str(s3_image_path),
                         profile='my-profile',
                         faces=responses_dir / f'{s3_image_path.stem}_DetectFaces.json',
                         labels=responses_dir / f'{s3_image_path.stem}_DetectLabels.json',
                         debug=True)

Examples

Check out example images on GitHub for sample use cases and results.

How It Works

This library currently makes calls to the Amazon Rekognition APIs to detect bounding boxes on a Face and Person in a photo.

It then uses custom, in-house logic to determine the X/Y coordinates for cropping. This mainly involves "blowing up" or enlarging the Face bounding box, but then correcting the coordinates as needed by the Person box. This logic has been fine-tuned based on what I have found provide the best overall results for generic images (not necessary profile photos).

In the future, other ideas other than Rekognition might be considered -- such as existing machine learning approaches or even a solution with the opencv library in Python alone.

Future Ideas

• Support background removal with rembg.
• Investigate other (alternate) approaches to Rekognition for detecting a face and person in a photo.

Credits

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the rnag/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.

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License

Copyright (c) 2023-present Ritvik Nag

Licensed under MIT License

History

0.1.3 (2023-03-13)

• Update documentation to include sponsor links, and complete install instructions.

0.1.2 (2023-03-09)

• Embed images in documentation.
• Convert .rst files to .md format.

0.1.1 (2023-03-08)

• Update documentation.

0.1.0 (2023-03-08)

• First release on PyPI.