MediaPipe Hand AutoFlip updated, Windows support, Tracing/profiling

• MediaPipe Hand
  * Updated model, documentation and pipeline
  * Improved hand tracking quality in various scenarios
  * Added handedness prediction, e.g. left or right hand.
  * See tweet for visualization
• MediaPipe Face Detection
  * Updated model for front-facing camera
  * Added model for back-facing camera, which better handles smaller faces
• MediaPipe AutoFlip
  * Updated to use face detection model for back-facing camera
• Support for running MediaPipe on Windows - experimental
  * MediaPipe TFLite CPU desktop live and offline demos only. No TFLite GPU and TensorFlow support yet.
  * Compiled by MSVC through Bazel. No MinGW and Cygwin support yet.
  * MediaPipe Android apps are NOT buildable on native Windows yet.
• Tracing and profiling MediaPipe graphs - experimental
  * Support for collecting trace logs on Android, iOS, Linux
  * To analyze the trace logs, MediaPipe Visualizer
• Community related
  * Awesome MediaPipe: curation of code related to MediaPipe
  * Slack community for MediaPipe users

MediaPipe KNIFT (Template-based Feature Matching)

• MediaPipe KNIFT
  • See also Google Developers Blog post

MediaPipe Face Mesh

• MediaPipe Face Mesh (3D face landmark estimation with 468 landmarks)
• MediaPipe Modules
  • Face Detection
  • Face Landmark example

Bazel 2&3 Support and Dependency Bump

• Support Bazel 2 and 3. MediaPipe will no longer support Bazel 0.x and 1.x.
• MediaPipe's TensorFlow dependency is now pointing to tensorflow/tensorflow@805e47c, which is submitted on April 1, 2020.
• MediaPipe's Protobuf dependency is now pointing to protobuf-3.11.4.
• Solve Xlib's Status & absl::Status compilation issue on linux.
• Fix setup_opencv.sh.
• Fix media sequence documentation by following the suggestions in #566.

CPU acceleration with XNNPack, Google Open Source code search

• CPU acceleration with XNNPack
• Fix iOS memory leak issue: #387
• Support detection proto in MediaPipe AAR
• Add hair segmentation desktop live demo
• Google Open Source code search for MediaPipe Github repository

MediaPipe Objectron (3D Object Detection)

• MediaPipe Objectron (3D object detection and tracking using only RGB images)
  • Objectron calculators
  • See also Google AI Blog post
• Bug fixes
  • Update Coral dependences to match v0.6.9 release

MediaPipe v0.6.9 - MediaPipe Dependency Bump

v0.6.9 - MediaPipe Dependency Bump

• MediaPipe's Abseil dependency is now pointing to abseil's LTS_2020_02_25 release.
• MediaPipe is now switched to absl::Status.
• MediaPipe's TensorFlow version is now pointing to commit 77e9ffb9b2bfb1a4f7056e62d84039626923e328, which is submitted on Feb 12, 2020.
• The range of Bazel version that MediaPipe supports is now narrowed. We support Bazel from v1.0.0 to v1.2.1.

MediaPipe web demos, YouTube Channel, new calculators

v0.6.8.1 - MediaPipe web demos, YouTube Channel, new calculators

• improved android camera support (camera properties including).
• subgraph node and stream naming improvement
• bug fix for data race in SimulationClockExecutor
• concurrency macros update for ABSL (GUARDED_BY --> ABSL_GUARDED_BY)
• image_cropping_calculator improvement.
• new utility calculator, ConstantSidePacketCalculato
• Web demos
  • Edge Detection
  • Face Detection
  • Hands Tracking
  • Hair Segmentation
• Documentation
  • Corel example improvement
  • YouTube channel
  • MediaPipe on the Web - Google Dev Blog Post

MediaPipe v0.6.8 - AutoFlip: Automatic video cropping desktop pipeline

MediaPipe v0.6.8 - AutoFlip: Automatic video cropping desktop pipeline

• MediaPipe AutoFlip desktop example
• Bazel maximum version check (version 1.2.1)
• Added way to extract detection protos from object detection android mobile GPU example
• Bug fixes
  • previous_loopback_calculator
  • split_vector_calculator
  • scale_image_calculator
• Documentation
• MediaPipe AutoFlip documentation
• Fixes for framework concept, coral face and object detection docs

MediaPipe v0.6.7.1 - Tracking library and Object Detection & Tracking example

MediaPipe v0.6.7.1 - Tracking library and Object Detection & Tracking example

• MediaPipe Tracking library
• MediaPipe Object Detection (GPU) & Tracking example android
• Bug fixes
  • (Multi)handtracking demo crashes on Mali and PowerVR GPUs [android]
  • iOS fixes - better documentation (#25, #135), iOS crash (#145)
• .Documentation
  • MediaPipe Object Detection (GPU) & Tracking
  • Google Developer MediaPipe Object Tracking blog post