Overview
Lip Colour Finder accepts an uploaded image of a face and returns lipstick recommendations based on the colour of the lips found on that face.
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Processing
Once an image is uploaded to the server, pre-trained models locate faces and their facial features which are then used to hone in on areas of interest of the face.
After detecting the location of the face’s skin using the method defined here, estimates of the face’s skin colour are created using a histogram.
The face skin colour estimate is then subtracted from a crop of the image containing only the face’s lips. This process produces a group of pixels from which we can use a histogram to extract an estimate for the lip colour.
Lip colour estimation is performed in the L*a*b* colour space and estimates are compared against a database of lipstick colours that have also been converted to the L*a*b* colour space. Lipsticks with the smallest colour distance from our estimate are returned to the user.
Internals
Lip Colour Finder is built on the following technologies:
Web backend: Python | Django
Image processing: Python | dlib | scikit-image | Numpy | OpenCV
Web frontend: JavaScript | React
Web server: Ubuntu | NGINX | Gunicorn
Privacy
Images uploaded to the service are not viewed by a human and are deleted as soon as the analysis is complete.
Kyle Ingraham | Engineer 