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Face Recognition Made Simple in Python
A short look at ageitgey/face_recognition, an open source Python library and command line tool for finding and identifying faces in photos. It uses ready made face models behind a small API and gets most faces right. See the project at
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This open source GitHub project turns a folder of photos into a list of names. It finds each face and tells you who it is. You are building an app that needs to find and track faces in photos or video. You want to add this to your project without training a model from scratch. face_recognition, an open source Python library for finding and identifying faces, is a command line tool. It uses ready made face models behind a small, friendly API. It turns each face into a set of numbers, then compares those numbers to known faces. The project gets most faces right. This library is free and open source, so you can add face detection to your own projects today. Would you use this workflow?
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