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Faceplugin open-source Face Recognition Linux SDK. Free on-premise Python sample. Lower accuracy than the commercial Docker Face Recognition API.

Code

GitHub - Faceplugin-ltd/Open-Source-Face-Recognition-SDK: Face Recognition, Face Liveness Detection, Face Anti-Spoofing, Face Detection, Face Landmarks, Face Compare, Face Matching, Face Pose, Face Expression, Face Attributes, Face Templates Extraction, Face LandmarksGitHub

Free open-source Face Recognition Linux SDK

Overview

Free open-source Face Recognition sample for Linux (Python). Detect faces, extract embeddings, and compare them on your machine — no Faceplugin cloud.

Accuracy is lower than the commercial Face Recognition Linux SDK. Contact Faceplugin if you need the higher-accuracy native engine.

Setup

Please download anaconda on your computer and install it. We used Linux machine without GPU for testing

1. Create anaconda environment

   conda create -n facesdk python=3.9

2. Activate env

   conda activate facesdk

3. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. In face_util/faceutil.py, confirm the Linux library path points to libFaceUtil.so

   dll_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) + '/C/libFaceUtil.so'

   (Windows uses '/C/FaceUtil.dll' instead — see the Windows page.)

5. Compare face images in the test directory

   python run.py

APIs and Parameters

• GetImageInfo(image, faceMaxCount): returns face bounding boxes, landmarks and feature embedding

• get_similarity(feat1, feat2): returns similarity between two feature embeddings. 0 to 100

• Threshold: value to determine if two embeddings belong to same person, default = 75

FAQ

Same accuracy as Docker Hub? No. Use Face Recognition Linux SDK (faceplugin/face-recognition) for the commercial Face Recognition API.

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