Face Recognition Using OpenCV In Python

By Ruparna Mukherjee

Detecting and Recognizing known faces in an image using OpenCv and face-recognition libraries in python.

Description:

Detecting and Recognizing known faces from and image with python as code base and using OpenCv and face-recognition libraries.This project can be further extended in real time face detection and recognition.

Requirements:

-OpenCv:

    pip install opencv-python

-NumPy:

    pip install numpy

-face-recognition:

    pip install face-recognition

Usage:

Go to the destined folder and open command prompt (terminal). From command prompt (terminal) type:

python faceRecog.py --img path_to_image

For example: python faceRecog.py --img test.jpg