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Recognize and manipulate faces from Python or from the command line with the world's simplest face recognition library.
Built using dlib's state-of-the-art face recognition built with deep learning. The model has an accuracy of 99.38% on the Labeled Faces in the Wild benchmark.
This also provides a simple face_recognition command line tool that lets
you do face recognition on a folder of images from the command line!
Find all the faces that appear in a picture:
import face_recognition
image = face_recognition.load_image_file("your_file.jpg")
face_locations = face_recognition.face_locations(image)Get the locations and outlines of each person's eyes, nose, mouth and chin.
import face_recognition
image = face_recognition.load_image_file("your_file.jpg")
face_landmarks_list = face_recognition.face_landmarks(image)Finding facial features is super useful for lots of important stuff. But you can also use it for really stupid stuff like applying [digital make-up] (think 'Meitu'):
Recognize who appears in each photo.
import face_recognition
known_image = face_recognition.load_image_file("biden.jpg")
unknown_image = face_recognition.load_image_file("unknown.jpg")
biden_encoding = face_recognition.face_encodings(known_image)[0]
unknown_encoding = face_recognition.face_encodings(unknown_image)[0]
results = face_recognition.compare_faces([biden_encoding], unknown_encoding)You can even use this library with other Python libraries to do real-time face recognition:
See [this example] for the code.
User-contributed shared Jupyter notebook demo (not officially supported):
- Python 3.3+ or Python 2.7
- macOS or Linux (Windows not officially supported, but might work)
First, make sure you have dlib already installed with Python bindings:
Then, make sure you have cmake installed:
brew install cmake
Finally, install this module from pypi using pip3 (or pip2 for Python 2):
pip3 install face_recognitionAlternatively, you can try this library with Docker, see this section.
If you are having trouble with installation, you can also try out a [pre-configured VM].
- Please follow the instructions in the article carefully. There is current a bug in the CUDA libraries on the Jetson Nano that will cause this library to fail silently if you don't follow the instructions in the article to comment out a line in dlib and recompile it.
pkg install graphics/py-face_recognitionWhile Windows isn't officially supported, helpful users have posted instructions on how to install this library:
When you install face_recognition, you get two simple command-line
programs:
face_recognition- Recognize faces in a photograph or folder full for photographs.face_detection- Find faces in a photograph or folder full for photographs.
The face_recognition command lets you recognize faces in a photograph or
folder full for photographs.
First, you need to provide a folder with one picture of each person you already know. There should be one image file for each person with the files named according to who is in the picture:
Next, you need a second folder with the files you want to identify:
Then in you simply run the command face_recognition, passing in
the folder of known people and the folder (or single image) with unknown
people and it tells you who is in each image:
$ face_recognition ./pictures_of_people_i_know/ ./unknown_pictures/
/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,Barack Obama
/face_recognition_test/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,unknown_personThere's one line in the output for each face. The data is comma-separated with the filename and the name of the person found.
An unknown_person is a face in the image that didn't match anyone in
your folder of known people.
The face_detection command lets you find the location (pixel coordinatates)
of any faces in an image.
Just run the command face_detection, passing in a folder of images
to check (or a single image):
$ face_detection ./folder_with_pictures/
examples/image1.jpg,65,215,169,112
examples/image2.jpg,62,394,211,244
examples/image2.jpg,95,941,244,792It prints one line for each face that was detected. The coordinates reported are the top, right, bottom and left coordinates of the face (in pixels).
If you are getting multiple matches for the same person, it might be that the people in your photos look very similar and a lower tolerance value is needed to make face comparisons more strict.
You can do that with the --tolerance parameter. The default tolerance
value is 0.6 and lower numbers make face comparisons more strict:
$ face_recognition --tolerance 0.54 ./pictures_of_people_i_know/ ./unknown_pictures/
/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,Barack Obama
/face_recognition_test/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,unknown_personIf you want to see the face distance calculated for each match in order
to adjust the tolerance setting, you can use --show-distance true:
$ face_recognition --show-distance true ./pictures_of_people_i_know/ ./unknown_pictures/
/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,Barack Obama,0.378542298956785
/face_recognition_test/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,unknown_person,NoneIf you simply want to know the names of the people in each photograph but don't care about file names, you could do this:
$ face_recognition ./pictures_of_people_i_know/ ./unknown_pictures/ | cut -d ',' -f2
Barack Obama
unknown_personFace recognition can be done in parallel if you have a computer with multiple CPU cores. For example, if your system has 4 CPU cores, you can process about 4 times as many images in the same amount of time by using all your CPU cores in parallel.
If you are using Python 3.4 or newer, pass in a --cpus <number_of_cpu_cores_to_use> parameter:
$ face_recognition --cpus 4 ./pictures_of_people_i_know/ ./unknown_pictures/You can also pass in --cpus -1 to use all CPU cores in your system.
You can import the face_recognition module and then easily manipulate
faces with just a couple of lines of code. It's super easy!
API Docs: https://face-recognition.readthedocs.io.
import face_recognition
image = face_recognition.load_image_file("my_picture.jpg")
face_locations = face_recognition.face_locations(image)
# face_locations is now an array listing the co-ordinates of each face!See this example to try it out.
You can also opt-in to a somewhat more accurate deep-learning-based face detection model.
Note: GPU acceleration (via NVidia's CUDA library) is required for good
performance with this model. You'll also want to enable CUDA support
when compliling dlib.
import face_recognition
image = face_recognition.load_image_file("my_picture.jpg")
face_locations = face_recognition.face_locations(image, model="cnn")
# face_locations is now an array listing the co-ordinates of each face!See this example to try it out.
If you have a lot of images and a GPU, you can also find faces in batches.
import face_recognition
image = face_recognition.load_image_file("my_picture.jpg")
face_landmarks_list = face_recognition.face_landmarks(image)
# face_landmarks_list is now an array with the locations of each facial feature in each face.
# face_landmarks_list[0]['left_eye'] would be the location and outline of the first person's left eye.See this example to try it out.
import face_recognition
picture_of_me = face_recognition.load_image_file("me.jpg")
my_face_encoding = face_recognition.face_encodings(picture_of_me)[0]
# my_face_encoding now contains a universal 'encoding' of my facial features that can be compared to any other picture of a face!
unknown_picture = face_recognition.load_image_file("unknown.jpg")
unknown_face_encoding = face_recognition.face_encodings(unknown_picture)[0]
# Now we can see the two face encodings are of the same person with `compare_faces`!
results = face_recognition.compare_faces([my_face_encoding], unknown_face_encoding)
if results[0] == True:
print("It's a picture of me!")
else:
print("It's not a picture of me!")See this example to try it out.
All the examples are available here.