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
command line tool that lets you do face recognition on a folder of images from the command line!
- face_recognition
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 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.
First, make sure you have dlib already installed with Python bindings:
Then, install this module from pypi using
(or
- pip3
for Python 2):
- pip2
- pip3 install face_recognition
If you are having trouble with installation, you can also try out a pre-configured VM .
While Windows isn't officially supported, helpful users have posted instuctions on how to install this library:
When you install
, you get a simple command-line program called
- face_recognition
that you can use to recognize faces in a photograph or folder full for photographs.
- face_recognition
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
, 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
- $ face_recognition ./pictures_of_people_i_know/ ./unknown_pictures/
- /unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,Barack Obama
- /face_recognition_test/unknown_pictures/unknown.jpg,unknown_person
There'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
is a face in the image that didn't match anyone in your folder of known people.
- unknown_person
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
parameter. The default tolerance value is 0.6 and lower numbers make face comparisons more strict:
- --tolerance
- $ 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_person
If 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,None
If 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_person
Face 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
parameter:
- --cpus <number_of_cpu_cores_to_use>
- $ face_recognition--cpus 4. / pictures_of_people_i_know / . / unknown_pictures /
You can also pass in
to use all CPU cores in your system.
- --cpus -1
You can import the
module and then easily manipulate faces with just a couple of lines of code. It's super easy!
- face_recognition
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 .
If you want to learn how face location and recognition work instead of depending on a black box library, read my article .
Since
depends on
- face_recognition
which is written in C++, it can be tricky to deploy an app using it to a cloud hosting provider like Heroku or AWS.
- dlib
To make things easier, there's an example Dockerfile in this repo that shows how to run an app built with
in a Docker container. With that, you should be able to deploy to any service that supports Docker images.
- face_recognition
Issue:
when using face_recognition or running examples.
- Illegal instruction (core dumped)
Solution:
is compiled with SSE4 or AVX support, but your CPU is too old and doesn't support that. You'll need to recompile
- dlib
after making the code change outlined here .
- dlib
Issue:
when running the webcam examples.
- RuntimeError: Unsupported image type, must be 8bit gray or RGB image.
Solution: Your webcam probably isn't set up correctly with OpenCV. Look here for more .
Issue:
when running
- MemoryError
- pip2 install face_recognition
Solution: The face_recognition_models file is too big for your available pip cache memory. Instead, try
to avoid the issue.
- pip2 --no-cache-dir install face_recognition
Issue:
- AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'face_recognition_model_v1'
Solution: The version of
you have installed is too old. You need version 19.7 or newer. Upgrade
- dlib
.
- dlib
Issue:
- Attribute Error: 'Module' object has no attribute 'cnn_face_detection_model_v1'
Solution: The version of
you have installed is too old. You need version 19.7 or newer. Upgrade
- dlib
.
- dlib
Issue:
- TypeError: imread() got an unexpected keyword argument 'mode'
Solution: The version of
you have installed is too old. You need version 0.17 or newer. Upgrade
- scipy
.
- scipy
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