Menpo is very much a work in progress. The project is at a beta stage, and this should be kept in mind at all times.
Menpo is a statistical modelling toolkit, providing all the tools required to build, fit, visualize, and test deformable models like Active Appearance Models, Constrained Local Models and Supervised Descent Method.
Menpo were facial armours which covered all or part of the face and provided a way to secure the top-heavy kabuto (helmet). The Shinobi-no-o (chin cord) of the kabuto would be tied under the chin of the menpo. There were small hooks called ori-kugi or posts called odome located on various places to help secure the kabuto's chin cord.
--- Wikipedia, Menpo
Here in the Menpo team, we are firm believers in making installation as simple as possible. Unfortunately, we are a complex project that relies on satisfying a number of complex 3rd party library dependencies. The default Python packing environment does not make this an easy task. Therefore, we evangelise the use of the conda ecosystem, provided by Anaconda. In order to make things as simple as possible, we suggest that you use conda too! To try and persuade you, go to the Menpo website to find installation instructions for all major platforms.
Menpo makes extensive use of IPython Notebooks to explain functionality of the package. These Notebooks are hosted in the menpo/menpo-notebooks repository. We strongly suggest that after installation you:
- Download the latest version of the notebooks
- Run
ipython notebook - Play around with the notebooks.
Want to get a feel for Menpo without installing anything? You can browse the notebooks straight from the menpo website.
See our documentation on ReadTheDocs
We use nosetests for unit tests. You can check our current coverage on coveralls.
>> nosetests
from the top of the repository is all this is required.