In this post, I will show you how to build your own face recognizer using Python. Building a program that detects and recognizes faces is a very interesting and fun project to get started with computer vision. In previous posts, I showed how to recognize text and also how to detect faces in an image, these are great projects to practice python in computer vision. Today, we will do something a little more advance and that is face recognition.

As can be understood from the name, we will write a program that will recognize faces in an image. When I say “program”, you can understand this as teaching a machine what to do and how to do it. I like to use teaching instead of programming because that’s actually what we will be doing. The best way of learning is teaching, so while teaching a machine how to detect faces, we are learning too. Before we start working on the project, I want to share the difference between face detection and face recognizer. This is something good to know.

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