LivePortrait
Copies your facial expressions from a video onto any photo.
FreeOpen sourceRuns on your PC
- Best for
- Animating photos with your face
- On your PC
- Some setup
- Works on
- Windows, Linux, Mac
- License
- MIT (face detector models non-commercial)
What’s good
- Very fast, about 15 ms per frame on RTX 4090
- Windows one-click installer, also runs on Mac
- Works on pets as well as people
Downsides
- Does not lip sync from audio; needs a driving video
- Face detector models are non-commercial
- About 20 times slower on Mac
The details.
- Version
- LivePortraitReleased 2024-07
- Open source
- Yes, MIT (face detector models non-commercial)
- Made by
- Kuaishou (Kling team)
- Website
- github.com
Should you use it?
It is #12 of 12. Good for animating photos with your face; for most people, HeyGen is the better start.
Can I run it myself?
Yes. Some setup: download a model inside an app.
Use Windows one-click installer, ComfyUI, Gradio app.
- You need
- NVIDIA GPU with 8 GB; Apple Silicon works but slowly
- Setup
- Some setupDownload a model inside an app
- Laptop, 8 GBToo small
- PC, 16 GB+Too small
- Mac, 16 GBToo small
- Mac, 32 GBToo small
- Mac, 64 GB+Too small
- PC, 8 GB GPURuns
- PC, 12 GB GPURuns
- PC, 16 GB GPURuns
- PC, 24 GB GPURuns
- WorkstationRuns