[~]# whoami_

Who am I: a celebrity face match web application

Purpose

This application aims to find images of celebrities that look similar to you based on the facial features in your face. Named for the linux command whoami which displays the current user's username.

Examples

Input: Elon Musk -> Output: Ben Affleck

Input: "Hide the Pain" Harold -> Output: John Hawkes

Input: Me -> Output: Kevin Hart

How it works

• Dataset
  • celebrity database consists of IMDB's top 1,000 actors and actresses
• Models
  • using ResNet50 and VGGFace pretrained networks

How to use it:

• Only works on macOS for now
• Clone repo to your local machine
  • $ git clone https://github.com/thedtripp/whoami.git
• Change into the cloned repo
  • $ cd whoami
• Recommend using Anacona with a virtual environment running python 3.7.4
  • $ virtualenv face-recognition --python=python3.7.4
• Install required packages from requirements.txt file
  • $ pip install -r requirements.txt
• Start the application server
  • $ python run.py
• Open the application in web browser. Be sure to allow webcam access
  • http://localhost:8050