We know them, we might hate them or love them but we’ve definitely tried them.

Is there any playfulness left in these successors of プリクラ1 technology?

Earlier facial recognition tools like clmtrackr2 generate a 48 point face mesh, while newer ones like Google’s Mediapipe3 estimates 3D face landmarks in real-time even on mobile devices.

TODO mention the Japanese researcher that has been studying purikura, check past instagram stories

References

Footnotes

  1. TODO

  2. https://github.com/auduno/clmtrackr?tab=readme-ov-file

  3. https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/face_landmarker