Face-Recognition-API

Utilising the face recognition library built on top of dlib to create a REST API using Flask

Dependencies:

• Python 3.6
• Visual Studio Build Tools
• Face-recognition
• openCV
• dlib
• cmake
• flask

Setup Build Environment

• Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/ash2703/Face-Recognition-Api.git

  Navigate to the root of the above cloned repo.

• Install Dependencies

  Refer this for detailed instructions

```
CMake : https://cmake.org/download/
Visual Studio : https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
Add Cmake to system PATH
pip install -r requirements.txt
```

• Create Face Database

  Follow this directory structure, store multiple photos of same person in a single folder

    face_gallery
    ├───person
    │       photo1.jpg
    │       photo2.jpg
    │
    ├───obama
    │       obama.jpg
    │
    └───trump
            donald-trump-premiere-king-kong
            trump.jpg

Testing the pipleine

1. Face Recognition

To run the recogniton alone

python recognizer.py

2. Recogniton API

python api.py   #Run the api
curl -XPOST -F "file=@sample/obamas.jpg" http://127.0.0.1:5001