SelfieADay

My "selfie a day" hobby files.

This is a fork of a fork of a fork.

What is Selfie A Day ?

It's a hobby where a person takes a selfie (photo of him/her) everyday. After a period (years), the pictures are joined to make a timelapse video. The pictures are joined in such a way that the face is centered.

Example video : Hugo Cornellier's AGE 12 to MARRIED

There's also a Reddit community for this hobbyists.

Why ?

For fun ! Also, it's a lazy way to make a journal.

A picture tells a thousand words eh ? You can figure out the place you where, people you were with and how things were.

This repo contains scripts, instructions to manage your own selfie a day project.

Managing Pictures

Make a dedicated folder in your phone to store the pics. Make sure the date is correct and pictures have the correct EXIF date. It would be great if the filename contains the date captured. If the folder name is something like 0PSAD, it will show up first because of the number at beginning.
Periodically copy this folder from phone to your computer.
Back it up to a cloud. What I do is take the pictures in the order of their date, split it into 100, zip it and upload. Usage :

mkdir compressed
python3 split-into-chunks.py 0PSAD compressed

Making Video

Requirements

The awesome Photo A Day Aligner tool

Run

Clone/download this repo
Download shape_predictor_68_face_landmarks.dat and place it in the cloned repo folder

Install dependencies :

pip3 install wheel
pip3 install dlib
pip3 install scipy
pip3 install exifread python-resize-image

Copy pictures to input folder
Run make-input.py. This'll resize every images in input folder to a square which solves this
Edit pada.conf according to your need
Run : python3 pada.py align

Video

Use ffmpeg for making the video from images in output folder. Change fps according to your need using -r flag :

cat aligned/*.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -r 20 -vcodec mjpeg -i - -vcodec libx264 out.mp4

Sound

I'm gonna add this sound to the video. Sound file name is sound.mp3 :

cat aligned/*.jpg | ffmpeg -f image2pipe -r 10 -vcodec mjpeg -i - -i sound.mp3 -shortest out.mp4

Reduce Video Size

Source :

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "scale=iw/2:ih/2" half_the_frame_size.mkv
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "scale=iw/3:ih/3" a_third_the_frame_size.mkv
ffmpeg -i input.mkv -vf "scale=iw/4:ih/4" a_fourth_the_frame_size.mkv

TODO

Align to the right face in pictures with multiple faces
Make it faster
Make the PADA script work for all image resolutions (eliminate make-input.py)

LICENSES

Matthew Earl's Photo-a-day aligner

subins2000 / SelfieADay