facenet VS CompreFace

As for me, openface is already outdated - the latest release was in 2016. If you look for a library, the easiest to use is ageitgey/face_recognition. The more accurate libraries are davidsandberg/facenet and deepinsight/insightface.

ML training is practically impossible on micro-controllers. Inferencing on the other hand is quite doable, especially if aided by a [TPU coprocessor](https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/). Supposedly with the TPU you can do some quantization-aware training, but I haven't tried this. I am working on a security system that does facial recognition to recognize me and some friends and considers anyone else as an intruder. How I am doing this is by retraining [Facenet](https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet) with my facial embeddings. Use something like Haar Cascade in OpenCV to get the bounding box for a face and put it through the model to extract face embeddings. You can then save these embeddings as a sort of databases for the faces you want it to recognize during the inferencing phase. After that you can impose something like a SVM classifier to say who in your face database it is. One thing I will note is that the problem is even easier if you are only concerned with one face - in which case it is technically face identification - not recognition. If that is the case, you only need to do a difference calculation between the embeddings you saved during training and the result output from inferencing. If you do end up using the TPU, you can connect to it over USB from inside a container (I only know how to do this in Docker though) too. Hope this was helpful. I am actually looking to use a k8s cluster eventually too as a sort of smart hub for my security system and other devices so I can handle much more traffic (not sure if this is overkill or not on the pi 4s).

He might just be a solid techie because the scripts are freely available on github. https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet

# https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/blob/master/docs/Face-services-and-plugins.md)

I looked at Double Take (UI that lets you do the training of your face recondition easily) and found CompreFace as one of models they support. It looks like what I need but there is a catch... no OpenVino (intel CPUs AI accelerator) support. I really like my low power NVR setup and would like keep it that way. Running AI on CPU without acceleration is both power inefficient and much slower. I have a spare low end GPU but if dump it in the system the current AI acceleration brakes... (I know I can prob fix it but that is a rabbit hole I would prefer to avoid).

This has good UI and also good recognition: https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace

wget -q -O tmp.zip 'https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/releases/download/v1.1.0/CompreFace_1.1.0.zip' && unzip tmp.zip && rm tmp.zip

https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/ Is already a good locally-run API for face detection and facial recognition. Thankyou for your suggestion.

If you are looking for open source stuff and are able to self-host it, maybe have a look at CompreFace.

As almost always, on GitHub https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace

Looking into this I found Compreface (https://exadel.com/solutions/compreface/) an open source face recognition software. There are alread some controb scripts, like contrib/photils.lua, who take some images, run them through a tool, then tag them with data coming from the tool. Converting this to use Compreface looks likea promising avenue.