A Simple Tutorial To Identify Human Face In a Given Image

Prerequisite

• Python3
• PyCharm or any other python IDE
• Homebrew
• cmake (brew install cmake)
• dlib (pip3 install dlib)

The steps in bracket are specific to mac.

Code

	import PIL.Image
	import PIL.ImageDraw
	import face_recognition
	image = face_recognition.load_image_file("IMG_20190720_160311.jpg")
	face_locations = face_recognition.face_locations(image)
	number_of_faces = len(face_locations)
	pil_image = PIL.Image.fromarray(image)
	for face_location in face_locations:
	top, right, bottom, left = face_location
	draw = PIL.ImageDraw.Draw(pil_image)
	draw.rectangle([left,top, right, bottom],outline="red",width=5)
	pil_image.show()

view raw FindFace.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

The algorithm behind will be covered in subsequent tutorial.

Test Input

Test Output

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Reference:

Linked In Course On Face Recognition

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