DeepFaceLab

RHEL 8 Installation

As of this writing, pip3.6 will install tensorflow 2.3.0 which does not support configproto. The fix is to install an older version, in this case I just used what was listed on the stackoverflow post.

mkdir build && cd build
sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo dnf install git
git clone https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git ffmpeg && cd ffmpeg
./configure --disable-x86asm
make
sudo make install
cd ../
git clone https://github.com/nagadit/DeepFaceLab_Linux.git && cd DeepFaceLab_Linux/scripts
chmod +x *
git clone https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab.git
sudo pip3.6 install --upgrade pip
pip3.6 install --user colorama
pip3.6 install --user numpy
pip3.6 install --user scikit-build
pip3.6 install --user opencv-python-headless
pip3.6 install --user tqdm
pip3.6 install --user ffmpeg-python
pip3.6 install --user tensorflow==1.14
pip3.6 install --user pillow
pip3.6 install --user scipy

Usage

My use case was a prank, which was an excuse to play around with the technology.

• Downloaded three video conference calls where the target of the prank was prominent.
• Using kdenlive; I removed all video containing other people, merged the remaining into one video, then removed all instances of the target covering their face. In the end I had almost 30 minutes of video.
• I downloaded the destination video from youtube. It was an interview with someone that the target doesn't like, upon which the targets face will be placed. I will also play around with head swapping, but the destination has a lot more hair than the target.
• The destination was a very short clip, but had other people in it. I cut out anything with other people, but will add them back in post swap.
• I ran the following to get started

./env.sh
./1_clear_workspace.sh

• I copied the source video to build/DeepFaceLab_Linux/scripts/data_src.mp4
• Copied destination video to build/DeepFaceLab_Linux/scripts/data_dst.mp4
• At this point I extracted the frames from the source using defaults. This ran at .99x, so it took slightly longer than the video length.

./2_extract_image_from_data_src.sh

• Then I kicked off the facial extraction from the source, using defaults.

./4_data_src_extract_faces_S3FD.sh

On my Dell Opiplex 9020M with i5-4590T and no video card, I was able to extract faces at ~3.22s/it. I have 51,368 frames and it appears to process each one at 3.22 seconds each. After 17 hours I was at ~37%.

• Now extract the frames from the destination. In my case I edited the destination video to only contain the target face.

./3_extract_image_from_data_dst.sh