Change Hair Colors
Explore how to create a Python function that changes hair color in images using hair segmentation and face detection via MediaPipe. Understand key code elements for processing and coloring hair regions. Practice by applying different hair colors, with better results on darker hair, to gain hands-on experience in virtual hair color transformation.
Introduction
Hair coloring is a part of many people’s lives. People change their hair color either to cover up gray hair or simply for cosmetic purposes. Nowadays, people commonly change their hair color. Some reasons for changing hair color are listed below:
- To feel like a new person
- To boost mood
- To enhance looks
- To follow fashion trends
To experiment with a new hair shade virtually, let’s see how it works in actual practice.
Objective
Drawing from the lesson “Detecting Hair Color,” we’ll develop a utility in Python that allows us to virtually try out different hair colors while leveraging the hair segmentation methodology that we have already learned.
Dependencies
We’ll be using the following external Python libraries.
Library | Version |
| 1.9.0 |
| 0.8.9 |
| 4.4.0.46 |
| 1.19.4 |
| 1.11.1 |
| 1.0.7 |