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ShiqiYu / libfacedetection

An open source library for face detection in images. The face detection speed can reach 1000FPS.
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Face recognition vs. face detection #282

Closed josephernest closed 3 years ago

josephernest commented 3 years ago

Congrats for this nice project @ShiqiYu! Is it possible to do face recognition with this project? i.e. compare if photo1.jpg contains the same person as photo2.jpg?

(making using of face embedding / encoding and a distance metric?)

Or does it only do face detection?

fengyuentau commented 3 years ago

Hi @josephernest . Of course you can try face recognition using the faces detected by this project. However, it is worth noting that face detection is not face recognition, and this project does not perform face recognition. This project is dedicated for face detection, which locates faces on the image, and can be considered as the first step of face recognition, because you need to tell the machine where the face is so as to recognize it.

josephernest commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your answer @fengyuentau. So this project is dedicated to locate / detect faces, but not dedicated to identify them (e.g. with an 128-dimensional embedding), is that correct?

fengyuentau commented 3 years ago

@josephernest Yes, you are right.