Utilising the face recognition library built on top of dlib to create a REST API using Flask

Dependencies:

• Python 3.6
• Visual Studio Build Tools
• Face-recognition
• openCV
• dlib
• cmake
• flask

• Clone the repository

  git clone https://github.com/ash2703/Face-Recognition-Api.git
  

  Navigate to the root of the above cloned repo.

• Install Dependencies

  Refer this for detailed instructions

  CMake : https://cmake.org/download/
  Visual Studio : https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/visual-cpp-build-tools/
  Add Cmake to system PATH
  
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  

• Create Face Database

  Follow this directory structure, store multiple photos of same person in a single folder

  face_gallery
  ├───person
  │       photo1.jpg
  │       photo2.jpg
  │
  ├───obama
  │       obama.jpg
  │
  └───trump
          donald-trump-premiere-king-kong
          trump.jpg
  

To run the recogniton alone

python recognizer.py

python api.py   #Run the api
curl -XPOST -F "file=@sample/obamas.jpg" http://127.0.0.1:5001