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The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line

18 mentions on Hacker News by 16 people: 6 stories, 12 comments · first 2017-03-14 · latest 2025-08-14

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  1. Did you look at egoblur? its a lot more effective at face detection than https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition granted, you'd have to do your own face matching to do exception.
    comment by KaiserPro · 2025-08-14 · in Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
  2. …YOLOv3 (example: [1] but you'd need to steal the video reading code from the first link[0]) [0] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition/blob/master/exa... [1] https://github.com/deveth0/python-opencv/tree/master/objectD...
    comment by zimpenfish · 2025-08-05 · in Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI
  3. …[2]), and a few lines of bash and its fully automatic. I can even share links with family. [1] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition [2] https://github.com/saimn/sigal
    comment by AyyEye · 2024-12-15 · in They see your photos
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    The simplest facial recognition API for Python
    story by johhns4 · 2023-11-01 · 0 comments
  5. …glasses + mask as well https://github.com/jackdoe/programming-for-kids/blob/master/... and this is https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition completely out of the box, no tuning or anything, just copy pasted the example
    comment by throwaway47292 · 2021-09-11 · in Facial recognition technology: How to opt out at the airport
  6. …saving down the vectors. [0] https://medium.com/ml-everything/offline-object-detection-an... [1] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
    comment by bko · 2020-12-10 · in Show HN: Open-source Face Recognition on Raspberry Pi 3/4
  7. …the audio separately, then crop the input videos using a face-aware cropping script (which uses https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition ), then generate a video grid using ffmpeg + xgrid.
    comment by caryme · 2020-11-08 · in Stack Videos Horizontally, Vertically, in a Grid With FFmpeg
  8. …http://thewarriorfitness.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Warr... [2] https://tinyurl.com/yyoamjl4 [3] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21082702
    comment by CapricornNoble · 2019-10-04 · in No evidence that testosterone reduces cognitive empathy
  9. …an impressive 95.12% on the Youtube faces dataset, presumably a much more difficult dataset. [0] https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.03832
    comment by bko · 2019-07-07 · in FBI, ICE using state driver’s license photos for facial-recognition searches
  10. maybe this is a bit complex but setup facial recognition demo? https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
    comment by Wheaties466 · 2019-06-03 · in Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology
  11. …short tails, long hair, short hair, etc. Now think about a face. Most faces are very much alike. https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
    comment by bko · 2019-04-15 · in MIT Researcher Exposing Bias in Facial Recognition Tech Triggers Amazon’s Wrath
  12. …the huge dataset of 428526 fake generated photos and extracted their facial parameters with https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition . Now you can match your image against fake faces and compare with the closest matches. Enjoy! Maybe…
    comment by jaclaz · 2019-03-29 · in Have you been faked?
  13. just for comparison, I used this open source library ( https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition ) on the dataset and even with the cpu model (according to the github page the CNN is more accurate, but I couldn't test it out right now)…
    comment by Barrin92 · 2018-08-17 · in Face detection – An overview and comparison of different solutions
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    Command Line Facial Recognition Tool and Python API
    story by rwx------ · 2018-02-01 · 0 comments
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    Facial recognition API for Python and the command line
    story by jonbaer · 2017-07-29 · 0 comments
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    The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
    story by happy-go-lucky · 2017-03-15 · 0 comments
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    Face_recognition: Facial recognition in ~5 lines of code
    story by mromnia · 2017-03-15 · 0 comments
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    Show HN: A simple python API for doing face recognition in 5 lines of code
    story by ageitgey · 2017-03-14 · 1 comment