Human Face Recognition

author: Tobias Schoch

Just to make it clear from the beginning. This is just a convenient wrapper of the awsome dlib library (https://pypi.org/project/dlib/) by Davis King. He did the hard work!!

Overview

A python library to provide out of the box human face identification, based on dlib public models.

Change-Log

0.1.5

• renamed package to facerec
• update README.md for tag v0.1.5
• refactored callbacks and assured correct order of invocation appeared->identified->disappeared->identified->disappeared->...->disappeared for every identification
• invoke identification slot also if name is unknown
• fix invocation of on_identification slot of identification changes

0.1.4

• added test for callback
• added identification callback to thread on creation

0.1.3

• improved logging events of tracker
• try again threads
• log info for identified face
• use secrets in dron
• try multiprocessing instead of thread

0.1.2

• added parameter for identification interval
• changed package name to facerec, fixed error in thread if no frame to process

0.1.1

• removed pathlib expanduser as not available in python3.4
• fix python 3.3. setup issue
• switched to thread as only this works on my machine, removed buggy unneccesary changelog

0.1.0

• made identification more rigorous and improved client
• added threshold to configuration
• removed recursion included trigger on new face
• fix uuid to string
• returned to threads for on_appearance/disappearance slots
• removed unwanted logging configuration
• added disapearance time
• added on appear on disappear slots
• added real multiprocessing for performant stream

0.0.3

• add facerec server client
• store absolute path in configfile
• fixed bug in db config path
• fixed path issues
• added persistent database path configuration
• add logging for existing database
• remove opencv dependency
• bug that a subsequent teach updates a previously unkown face
• fixed bug identify with no teached face crashes
• added models to manifest

0.0.2

• add test data
• add the test data files
• fixed the threading issue with sqlalchemy etc
• proposal scoped session
• mad scoped session sqlalchemy
• add facetracker
• added requirements
• tests for dlib_api
• some work on dlib_api
• update readme
• facedb concepts ready

0.0.1

• initial version

Installation / Usage

To install use pip:

pip install https://github.com/toschoch/python-facerec.git

Or clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/toschoch/python-facerec.git
python setup.py install

Contributing

TBD

Example

TBD