README.md

Face Recognition API

Python environment

Python version: Python 3.6.8

For this project, we used virtualenv as environment. You can find it in API/env. You can activate it with:

$ source env/bin/activate

and disable it with:

$ deactivate

Python decencies

You can install all the dependencies with:

$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Be carefull to have CMake installed before trying to install face_recognition. You can install it with

$ pip3 install CMake

How to use it

There are two components in the backend: app.py and get_name_from_camera_feed.py.

• app.py: This is the API itself, it handle routes. You can run it with:

$ python3 app.py

• get_name_from_camera_feed.py: This is the algorithm that read the video feed and apply face recognition. You can run it with:

$ python3 get_name_from_camera_feed.py`

By default it will select the camera of your computer, but you can change it by any video feed, just change the value of video_capture = VideoCapture(0) 0 is the prinary webcam of your computer. You can also add multiple feeds.