What is OpenFace?
OpenFace is a Python and Torch implementation of face recognition with deep neural networks and is based on the CVPR 2015 paper FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering by Florian Schroff, Dmitry Kalenichenko, and James Philbin at Google.
OpenFace is a tool in the Facial Recognition category of a tech stack.
OpenFace is an open source tool with 15K GitHub stars and 3.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to OpenFace's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses OpenFace?
Companies
Developers
29 developers on StackShare have stated that they use OpenFace.
Pros of OpenFace
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OpenFace's Features
- Detect faces with pre-trained models
- Transform faces for the neural network
- Use deep neural networks to reprsent or embed the face on a hypersphere
- Apply favorite clustering or classification techniques to the features to complete recognition task
OpenFace Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to OpenFace?
OpenCV
OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.
TensorFlow
TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
