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face_recognition
ageitgey/face_recognition
The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
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Python
MIT
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📋 Project at a Glance
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What's this?Models project leveraging face-detection and face-recognition, built with Python, open-source
Who made it?Maintained by ageitgey team, 56.7K⭐ on GitHub, #17 out of 3201 in Models
Why does it exist?In the Models space, face-detection workflows faced efficiency bottlenecks. face_recognition was built by ageitgey to address these face-recognition challenges.
What can it do?Key use cases: machine-learning
How to install with AI?Use an AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot) to automatically set up pip dependencies and virtual env. Follow the README — the AI handles the rest.
🔗 github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
🔗 github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition
Topics
face-detectionface-recognitionmachine-learningpython