facenet VS insightface

Compare facenet vs insightface and see what are their differences.

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facenet insightface
5 34
13,479 21,155
- 3.1%
0.0 7.7
9 months ago 10 days ago
Python Python
MIT License MIT License
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facenet

Posts with mentions or reviews of facenet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-07.
  • CompreFace - Free and open-source self-hosted face recognition system from Exadel
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 May 2021
    As for me, openface is already outdated - the latest release was in 2016.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.
  • Facial recognition using cluster
    1 project | /r/RASPBERRY_PI_PROJECTS | 15 Jan 2021
    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).
  • Man with foot up on desk in Pelosi's office at Capitol arrested
    3 projects | /r/politics | 8 Jan 2021
    He might just be a solid techie because the scripts are freely available on github. https://github.com/davidsandberg/facenet

insightface

Posts with mentions or reviews of insightface. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing facenet and insightface you can also consider the following projects:

deepface - A Lightweight Face Recognition and Facial Attribute Analysis (Age, Gender, Emotion and Race) Library for Python

Face Recognition - The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line

CompreFace - Leading free and open-source face recognition system

sd-webui-roop - roop extension for StableDiffusion web-ui

DeepStack - The World's Leading Cross Platform AI Engine for Edge Devices

anime-face-detector - Anime Face Detector using mmdet and mmpose

FaceFusion - Next generation face swapper and enhancer

facenet-pytorch - Pretrained Pytorch face detection (MTCNN) and facial recognition (InceptionResnet) models

DeepCamera - Open-Source AI Camera. Empower any camera/CCTV with state-of-the-art AI, including facial recognition, person recognition(RE-ID) car detection, fall detection and more