Andrei Tkachenka

Fan Zhang, Valentin Bazarevsky, Andrey Vakunov et al.

We present a real-time on-device hand tracking pipeline that predicts hand skeleton from single RGB camera for AR/VR applications. The pipeline consists of two models: 1) a palm detector, 2) a hand landmark model. It's implemented via MediaPipe, a framework for building cross-platform ML solutions. The proposed model and pipeline architecture demonstrates real-time inference speed on mobile GPUs and high prediction quality. MediaPipe Hands is open sourced at https://mediapipe.dev.

Andrei Tkachenka, Gregory Karpiak, Andrey Vakunov et al.

We present a novel approach for neural network-based hair segmentation from a single camera input specifically designed for real-time, mobile application. Our relatively small neural network produces a high-quality hair segmentation mask that is well suited for AR effects, e.g. virtual hair recoloring. The proposed model achieves real-time inference speed on mobile GPUs (30-100+ FPS, depending on the device) with high accuracy. We also propose a very realistic hair recoloring scheme. Our method has been deployed in major AR application and is used by millions of users.