rampageousrj / face-recognition-workshop

Face recognition workshop code using OpenCV

Face Recognition Workshop

Guided mini-project under the guidance of organizers IOSD during the TechWeek Aurora organized by ISTE Manipal Chapter about face recognition and uses of ML models like haarcascade and mediapipe.

Features

• Does not use third party softwares to capture video
• Detects and outlines face with a blue box
• Provides functionalities to save snapshots after regular intervals
• Processes video frame-by-frame

Installation

Key libraries used for building the project

  pip install opencv-python
  pip install matplotlib
  pip install numpy

To use haarcascades classifier: https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/data/haarcascades