Added non-negative least squares blendshape fitting function

include/eos/fitting/blendshape_fitting.hpp

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 
 #include "eos/morphablemodel/Blendshape.hpp"
 
+#include "nnls.h"
+
 #include "opencv2/core/core.hpp"
 
 #include <vector>
@@ -34,10 +36,15 @@ namespace eos {
 
 /**
  * Fits blendshape coefficients to given 2D landmarks, given a current face shape instance.
- * It's a linear, closed-form solution fitting algorithm, with regularisation (constraining the L2-norm of the coefficients).
+ * It's a linear, closed-form solution fitting algorithm, with regularisation (constraining
+ * the L2-norm of the coefficients). However, there is no constraint on the coefficients,
+ * so negative coefficients are allowed, which, with linear blendshapes (offsets), will most
+ * likely not be desired. Thus, prefer the function
+ * fit_blendshapes_to_landmarks_nnls(std::vector<eos::morphablemodel::Blendshape>, cv::Mat, cv::Mat, std::vector<cv::Vec2f>, std::vector<int>).
  * 
- * This algorithm is very similar to the shape fitting in fit_shape_to_landmarks_linear. Instead of the PCA basis, the blendshapes are used, and instead of
- * the mean, a current face instance is used to do the fitting from.
+ * This algorithm is very similar to the shape fitting in fit_shape_to_landmarks_linear.
+ * Instead of the PCA basis, the blendshapes are used, and instead of the mean, a current
+ * face instance is used to do the fitting from.
  *
  * @param[in] blendshapes A vector with blendshapes to estimate the coefficients for.
  * @param[in] face_instance A shape instance from which the blendshape coefficients should be estimated (i.e. the current mesh without expressions, e.g. estimated from a previous PCA-model fitting). A 3m x 1 matrix.
@@ -112,6 +119,88 @@ inline std::vector<float> fit_blendshapes_to_landmarks_linear(std::vector<eos::m
 	return std::vector<float>(c_s);
 };
 
+/**
+ * Fits blendshape coefficients to given 2D landmarks, given a current face shape instance.
+ * Uses non-negative least-squares (NNLS) to solve for the coefficients. The NNLS algorithm
+ * used doesn't support any regularisation.
+ *
+ * This algorithm is very similar to the shape fitting in fit_shape_to_landmarks_linear.
+ * Instead of the PCA basis, the blendshapes are used, and instead of the mean, a current
+ * face instance is used to do the fitting from.
+ *
+ * @param[in] blendshapes A vector with blendshapes to estimate the coefficients for.
+ * @param[in] face_instance A shape instance from which the blendshape coefficients should be estimated (i.e. the current mesh without expressions, e.g. estimated from a previous PCA-model fitting). A 3m x 1 matrix.
+ * @param[in] affine_camera_matrix A 3x4 affine camera matrix from model to screen-space (should probably be of type CV_32FC1 as all our calculations are done with float).
+ * @param[in] landmarks 2D landmarks from an image to fit the blendshapes to.
+ * @param[in] vertex_ids The vertex ids in the model that correspond to the 2D points.
+ * @return The estimated blendshape-coefficients.
+ */
+inline std::vector<float> fit_blendshapes_to_landmarks_nnls(std::vector<eos::morphablemodel::Blendshape> blendshapes, cv::Mat face_instance, cv::Mat affine_camera_matrix, std::vector<cv::Vec2f> landmarks, std::vector<int> vertex_ids)
+{
+	using cv::Mat;
+	assert(landmarks.size() == vertex_ids.size());
+
+	int num_coeffs_to_fit = blendshapes.size();
+	int num_landmarks = static_cast<int>(landmarks.size());
+
+	// Copy all blendshapes into a "basis" matrix with each blendshape being a column:
+	cv::Mat blendshapes_as_basis(blendshapes[0].deformation.rows, blendshapes.size(), CV_32FC1); // assert blendshapes.size() > 0 and all of them have same number of rows, and 1 col
+	for (int i = 0; i < blendshapes.size(); ++i)
+	{
+		blendshapes[i].deformation.copyTo(blendshapes_as_basis.col(i));
+	}
+
+	// $\hat{V} \in R^{3N\times m-1}$, subselect the rows of the eigenvector matrix $V$ associated with the $N$ feature points
+	// And we insert a row of zeros after every third row, resulting in matrix $\hat{V}_h \in R^{4N\times m-1}$:
+	Mat V_hat_h = Mat::zeros(4 * num_landmarks, num_coeffs_to_fit, CV_32FC1);
+	int row_index = 0;
+	for (int i = 0; i < num_landmarks; ++i) {
+		Mat basis_rows = blendshapes_as_basis.rowRange(vertex_ids[i] * 3, (vertex_ids[i] * 3) + 3);
+		basis_rows.colRange(0, num_coeffs_to_fit).copyTo(V_hat_h.rowRange(row_index, row_index + 3)); // Todo: I think we can remove colRange here, as we always want to use all given blendshapes
+		row_index += 4; // replace 3 rows and skip the 4th one, it has all zeros
+	}
+	// Form a block diagonal matrix $P \in R^{3N\times 4N}$ in which the camera matrix C (P_Affine, affine_camera_matrix) is placed on the diagonal:
+	Mat P = Mat::zeros(3 * num_landmarks, 4 * num_landmarks, CV_32FC1);
+	for (int i = 0; i < num_landmarks; ++i) {
+		Mat submatrix_to_replace = P.colRange(4 * i, (4 * i) + 4).rowRange(3 * i, (3 * i) + 3);
+		affine_camera_matrix.copyTo(submatrix_to_replace);
+	}
+
+	// The landmarks in matrix notation (in homogeneous coordinates), $3N\times 1$
+	Mat y = Mat::ones(3 * num_landmarks, 1, CV_32FC1);
+	for (int i = 0; i < num_landmarks; ++i) {
+		y.at<float>(3 * i, 0) = landmarks[i][0];
+		y.at<float>((3 * i) + 1, 0) = landmarks[i][1];
+		//y.at<float>((3 * i) + 2, 0) = 1; // already 1, stays (homogeneous coordinate)
+	}
+	// The mean, with an added homogeneous coordinate (x_1, y_1, z_1, 1, x_2, ...)^t
+	Mat v_bar = Mat::ones(4 * num_landmarks, 1, CV_32FC1);
+	for (int i = 0; i < num_landmarks; ++i) {
+		cv::Vec4f model_mean(face_instance.at<float>(vertex_ids[i]*3), face_instance.at<float>(vertex_ids[i]*3 + 1), face_instance.at<float>(vertex_ids[i]*3 + 2), 1.0f);
+		v_bar.at<float>(4 * i, 0) = model_mean[0];
+		v_bar.at<float>((4 * i) + 1, 0) = model_mean[1];
+		v_bar.at<float>((4 * i) + 2, 0) = model_mean[2];
+		//v_bar.at<float>((4 * i) + 3, 0) = 1; // already 1, stays (homogeneous coordinate)
+		// note: now that a Vec4f is returned, we could use copyTo?
+	}
+
+	// Bring into standard regularised quadratic form:
+	Mat A = P * V_hat_h; // camera matrix times the basis
+	Mat b = P * v_bar - y; // camera matrix times the mean, minus the landmarks.
+
+	// Solve using NNLS:
+	using RowMajorMatrixXf = Eigen::Matrix<float, Eigen::Dynamic, Eigen::Dynamic, Eigen::RowMajor>;
+	Eigen::Map<RowMajorMatrixXf> A_Eigen(A.ptr<float>(), A.rows, A.cols);
+	Eigen::Map<RowMajorMatrixXf> b_Eigen(b.ptr<float>(), b.rows, b.cols);
+
+	Eigen::VectorXf x;
+	bool non_singular = Eigen::NNLS<Eigen::MatrixXf>::solve(A_Eigen, -b_Eigen, x);
+	Mat c_s(x.rows(), x.cols(), CV_32FC1, x.data()); // create an OpenCV Mat header for the Eigen data
+
+	
+	return std::vector<float>(c_s);
+};
+
 	} /* namespace fitting */
 } /* namespace eos */