The world’s simplest facial recognition API for Python and the command line

In this article, we’ll explore the ‘face_recognition’ library and implement a face recognition system.

Outline:

1. Step 1: Installation

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1. Step 2: Finding Faces in Image
2. Step 3: Identifying Facial Features
3. Step 4: Identifying Known Faces

Step 1: Installation:

Requirements

• Python 3.3+ or Python 2.7
• macOS or Linux (Windows not officially supported, but it will work fine)

For windows, First make sure that you have **dlib** installed. If you don’t have **dlib** installed. Follow these steps

• Clone the code from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/davisking/dlib.git

• Install with Python Extension:

cd ..
python3 setup.py install

After this step, you should be able to run import dlib successfully.

_After successful installation of _**_dlib_**_ library, install _**_face_recognition_**_ using this pip command_

pip3 install face_recognition

Now, you are ready to implement a real-time face recognition system.

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