# pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-demo

Demo for the "Talking Head Anime from a Single Image."

Repository: https://github.com/pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-demo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/talking-head-anime-demo
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: ai, anime, computer-graphics, computer-vision, deep-learning, machine-learning, pytorch, vtuber, python
Last push: 2022-06-29T20:27:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2441, "days_push": 1526, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2025, forks 283 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:06.740297+00:00)

## What it is
Demo applications for the 'Talking Head Anime from a Single Image' research project, built with PyTorch. It includes a manual poser for animating an anime character via sliders and a puppeteer that animates a character to mimic a user's head movements captured by a webcam.

## Use cases
- animate an anime character from a single image
- vtuber face tracking with webcam
- pose anime character with sliders
- try talking head anime demo on google colab
- research demo for single image character animation

## When to choose
- you want to animate an anime character from one image using deep learning
- you need a vtuber-style puppeteer driven by webcam head tracking
- you want to explore the research system's demo code in Python/PyTorch

## When to avoid
- you lack a powerful Nvidia GPU
- you need the newer, more capable version 2 features
- you need production-ready software rather than a research demo

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: machine-learning, computer-vision, image-processing, gui
- domain: computer-vision, deep-learning, machine-learning, graphics, entertainment
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: anime, vtuber, face-tracking, pytorch, talking-head, webcam, demo, single-image-animation, gpu, desktop

## Member repositories
- pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-demo (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.740297+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 2026-08-30T02:59:46.730918+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/pkhungurn/talking-head-anime-demo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:06.740297+00:00, sha 4b464dc061db)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.