DeVisu

DeVisu is simple face verification web app that allows users to save, verify, and remove a person from a database, given a face vector. The application is built with Flask and uses the face-recognition library, a python implementation of the dlib face recognition library, to extract face vectors from images.

Usage

Warning

The application has been with Python 3.11, but it should work with any Python 3.x version.

It's raccomended to use a virtual environment to run the application, in order to avoid conflicts with the system packages.

To create a virtual environment in python, run the following command on macOS and Linux:

python3 -m venv devisu_env

Note

On Windows, you do not need to specify the python version, so you can run by just typing python -m venv devisu_env.

To activate the virtual environment on macOS and Linux, run the following command:

source devisu_env/bin/activate

To activate the virtual environment on Windows:

devisu_env\Scripts\activate

When the virtual environment is activated, you should see the name of the virtual environment in the command line, like this:

(devisu_env) Path/to/your/folder

To install the required packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

To run the application, type the following command:

python3 app.py

The termianl will display that the application is running on the 0.0.0.0:5000 address, but sometimes it will not work. In this case, try to run the application on the localhost address:

localhost:5000

License

This project is made available under the Apache 2.0 License - see the LICENSE file for details.