# TadasBaltrusaitis/OpenFace

OpenFace – a state-of-the art tool intended for facial landmark detection, head pose estimation, facial action unit recognition, and eye-gaze estimation.

Repository: https://github.com/TadasBaltrusaitis/OpenFace
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tadasbaltrusaitis-openface
Language: MATLAB
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-06-01T00:44:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3833, "days_push": 824, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7740, forks 1911 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:02.725468+00:00)

## What it is
OpenFace is a facial behavior analysis toolkit that performs facial landmark detection, head pose estimation, facial action unit recognition, and eye-gaze estimation. It runs in real-time from a simple webcam and provides source code for both running and training the models.

## Use cases
- detect facial landmarks in images and videos
- estimate head pose from a webcam
- recognize facial action units (AUs)
- track eye gaze in real time
- analyze facial behavior for affective computing research
- build interactive applications based on facial expressions

## When to choose
- you need state-of-the-art facial landmark detection or AU recognition with source code
- you want real-time facial behavior analysis from a standard webcam
- you are doing computer vision or affective computing research and need trainable models

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained Python-first API or pip-installable package
- you need general object detection or full-body pose estimation rather than facial analysis
- you require a permissive license for commercial use without review

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: computer-vision, image-processing, machine-learning
- domain: computer-vision, artificial-intelligence
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: facial-landmark-detection, head-pose-estimation, action-units, gaze-estimation, facial-behavior-analysis, affective-computing, research, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- TadasBaltrusaitis/OpenFace (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.725468+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:35:10.661822+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/TadasBaltrusaitis/OpenFace (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:02.725468+00:00, sha 43ad4c6b95cb)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.