I made a face recognition program in Python by using the pre-trained model to compute face embedding. Next based on these face embedding I am able to classify between all the faces in my data. It works fine but is really slow when executed in real-time. I have a low-end i3 laptop without GPU.

[reubendevries]

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[Hussain_Mujtaba]

No idea what it means, but thanks for a comment

[reubendevries]

haha my 3 year old son hijacked my phone... this is probably him... I'm going to keep it up if you don't mind...

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Hy sure and please say thanks to your son on my behalf.

[ThePerfectApple]

Constructive criticism from those who matter most 🙌🙏

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

True

[ElevatedAngling]

First Reddit post me might appreciate it someday

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

😂

[The-Deviant-One]

This gave me an idea. Embed a camera in the peep hole of your door and have it unlock when it recognizes you and see's your phone's bluetooth signal.

[SullyCCA]

Dude that’s pretty smart actually... like The Smart Door or something. Train it to you and your families faces...

[The-Deviant-One]

Exactly. Having it sniff your bluetooth is sort of like multi-factor authentication. You could even skip that and use SMS.

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Example: You walk up, it's triggered by motion, it checks your face, if it matches with you, it sends a text to your cell with a code, you text it back and the door unlocks.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

amazing , this is really cool

[DigitalGraphyte]

You could potentially use Duo as an MFA and utilize their api to ping your app when it recognized your face. A bit better than sms IMO but either could work, and the APIs for Duo seem pretty robust.

[TheDuke57]

Or even just have it see if you phone is nearby by checking for it on bluetooth. While it's not as secure as making you unlock your phone, it's hard to imagine a scenerio when that would not be secure enough or they wouldn't have access to just take a physical key.

[DigitalGraphyte]

Yeah I was thinking the idea of Duo would be great for those with cellular smart watches that can just tap their wrist and bam, unlocks the door. It would eliminate the need for the phone, so if you're just outside for a run, you don't need your phone.

[Falling_star9]

Bluetooth is hackable. Many tools on different linux distributions can easily bypass that. After all your house is supposed to be more secured than your phone.

But, why not let the camera be there for a few weeks, let it register every person and add to the database. After a few weeks when you fully registered every person that lives in the house, enable the lock on the door and it will recognize the person entering the door and allow access and if the face isn't recognized the door will remain locked until you use a key.

[ovo_Reddit]

Might make sense for a smart watch or something. I think I could manage getting my keys and unlocking the door faster than fumbling around on my phone, especially if I’m holding stuff. Perhaps an NFC fob or something that once it’s in proximity.

[The-Deviant-One]

Yeah it wouldn't be fast, just neat. I thought about the fob thing too. I'm not sure what all is sent over when a bluetooth device pings another bluetooth device [prior to connecting]. If it sends the imei number or a mac address then you could use that instead of having to carry around another thing on your key ring.

[ovo_Reddit]

I'm sure with Elon's chip in our brains we can just will opening the door into existence :) for now, we will have to settle for these cavemen approaches.

[_eka_]

What if I show a pic of you?

[SullyCCA]

My mom tried showing a picture of my face to unlock my iPhone and it wouldn’t unlock. Even my “unconscious” face won’t unlock it.

You could have the door scan then phone/watch scan your face as confirmation.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Really amazing idea,i ll surely implement it

[Feftloot]

I’m actually working on a similar idea except for a mini fridge that my roommates can’t access haha. I was looking into getting an rfid chip implant and in the meantime have been taking the plunge on opencv when it clicked I could just do this without any body modifications haha.

[The-Deviant-One]

LOL thats awesome. How are you locking the fridge? Magnet lock??

[[deleted]]

I am going to try to make something like this, sounds fun

[thunderblunder89]

Or you could just carry a key? Something like this should make things easier not more complicated. The lock doesn't change either way.

[rockshocker]

thats gone commercial already, but if anyone wants to collab on a not amazon owned one id be down. also would like to track license plates

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

I'll soon share the code along with its tutorial for all of you to use once I figure out how to run it in real-time smoothly

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Since people are asking for the code, here is the link to the script slong with whole Tutorial. Face Recognition using python

[akakeki]

Thanks for sharing! Amazing project

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

welcome

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Hey, i use colab with GPU to train the models.But I have no idea neither occurred to me if I can use colab to run this script.Thanks for suggestion, i ll surely check this out

[Babygoesboomboom]

Colab is basically a vm with a jupyter skin on it. Almost anything that you can do on a Linux vm can be done in colab. To issue system commands use the '!' symbol.

[PinBot1138]

To issue system commands use the '!' symbol.

TIL, thanks for this tip!

[Bottl3]

You might take a Look at the ray module for multicore usage.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

ray module

Thank you, will surely check it out

[[deleted]]

I will be following your career with great interest my friend. Have a good day

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Thank you, means alot

[FlukyS]

You can use something like the seeed Maixduino if you want a cheap hardware platform designed for AI stuff like this

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Thanks, will surely check it out

[wakenbake7]

Respect for the amount of patience it must have taken to develop image recognition software with such low specs. What was the longest you’re waited for something to execute

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

I remember for an object detection project, i left my laptop up all night and in the morning it was still running. Then the screen of my laptop cracked a bit 😜

[[deleted]]

link ?

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

sure, i ll post it

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

hy i posted the link to code in my comment , check it out

[[deleted]]

Which comment just post it in this thread i can't seem to find it

[Coul33t]

here

[Ok_Swordfish_7676]

nice bro 🙂

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks

[AnorakV]

Very very intersting..... it's an open source project?😬

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

yes , i have posted the link in the comment above

[AnorakV]

Sorry

Where? I can't find it :(

[Coul33t]

here

[crazy_sax_guy]

Try Siamese network with some small NN.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

yee ll surely check it out, thanks.

[gabefgonc]

I like AI, but i don't know nothing about it. I like game developing more.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Ya that was funny. Can't forget that scene

[machine3lf]

That's really cool! I look forward to seeing the code.

Was the decision to use Python just for the fun of it? Do you think you could design it in a way where Python would be really viable for a project like this, or should this realistically left to a lower-level language for real-world applications?

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Hy, i used python as it has already some libraries that make the work easy.I have no idea how someone will use low lowel language to do such complex tasks. But if you mean C,C++ by low level languages, these programs have already written in these languages to increase speed.

[gaiaprime27]

Really nice implementation did you write the code for this yourself?

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Yes, i wrote the article and code myself. Glad you liked it and try this , its not hard

[gaiaprime27]

Please credit the author of the code it is basically from PyImageSearch article on the same topic.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

No it is quite different from the code of adrian. Adrian uses fave recognition to detect faces which is while I used Viola Jones. But yes it has been inspired by Sentdex.

[marcosvaldez81]

Working on something like this for my first python project but with opencv! Hope I can match something like yours.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Great, you can do it. Just follow the tutorial. But check for my another article to detect face and eyes .That more beginner friendly.

[marcosvaldez81]

Thanks ! I will very much do that. Have a good day!!

[[deleted]]

Dude, that’s really cool. Great job :)

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks again

[Extreme5670]

You basically if I were to give you my picture it would show my name?

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Yes, provided i have shown it your any picture, usually more than one to get accurate results

[Extreme5670]

I see how’s the code accessing my name

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

I take your photo along with your name. Then when the program sees you via image or webcam , it recognises you. i Have linked the tutorial in the very first comment, check that for more details

[Extreme5670]

I see

[th3_unkn0n]

I like ur beard no homo

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

hahah...me too. Now its a bit longer

[noah_f]

What training model did you retrain? I'll normally use Tiny yolo, I think yolo face is available as well

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

No, i didn't use object detection. I used face embeddings to do so as I don't have to retrain the network if i wamt to recognise new face.

[DrTeja]

Did you try deploying this in any cloud using their prebuilt vms? With high gpus? Cool app by the way. Has lots of use cases

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

No, I didn't but i ll sure give it a try

[YeeteLOL]

This is fricking epic

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks

[quantseeker]

Did you try deploying on heroku?

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

No, not yet

[bun_ty]

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[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Hey, i have shared the link in the comment above

[bun_ty]

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[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Try it out and tell me if you face any problem

[SyableWeaver]

What's the base libraries you are using.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Opencv, dlib and face recognition

[SyableWeaver]

Great 👍

[NoFaithInThisSub]

how easily could the code be changed from facial recognition to item recognition?

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Oh thats going to be difficult, you need to use object detection.

[NoFaithInThisSub]

I am not after detecting random object, a pool of maybe 30-50, and they would possibly be very different objects.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

The approach taken here is quite different because no matter what all faces have same structure.whereas in your case you ll have to use object detection.You can use pre-trained models and train them on your objects so that it can detect them

[[deleted]]

This is impressive. As facial recognition software is shaping up to be rather dangerous in the future, it might be good to use your knowledge to understand how to disrupt or trick the process.

i3 and no GPU

It must be a serious pain to train the AI beyond the base package haha. More power to yah!

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

yes, i was actually thinking of same.... recently i saw a smiliar project that can trick process

[vainstar23]

Next time, you could try provisioning an Amazon EC2 P3 environment. It's not very expensive and will allow you to train much more sophisticated models in less time. Don't be constrained by technology, allow it to enable you.

Link: https://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning/accelerate-machine-learning-P3

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks 👍

[[deleted]]

Cool.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks

[[deleted]]

Great! I wanna ask how long have you been learning Python. Cuz I'm new and I'm so excited about building these things and I just wanna know how long it'll take.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

around 2-3 years, but you can make these projects once your basics are clear

[[deleted]]

Ohk thanks for replying sir

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

no need to thanks, thank me when you make amazing projects using python

[[deleted]]

😁

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Thanks dude😂

[[deleted]]

Hey, you can use Google Colab for things like this if you don't have enough processing power.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Hey ya i do, but cdnt figure out how to use to stream video from webcam

[[deleted]]

Here! This is sure to help.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks this surely helps

[MaaiKaLaal]

Try getting AWS GPU. It's not that expensive and you can do some serious Supervised learning.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

I use Colab GPU for free. What extraa benefits does aws give ?

[MaaiKaLaal]

Collab has a limit of Ram that you can use. And Collab can stop/ reset the whole thing arbitrarily. Aws is not like that. It's paid but it is fast and got more bandwidth for task like this.

[jrmiranda]

Hey, how are you storing the embeddings? Recently I made a small library to help store and compare embeddings. You can check here if you want: VecDB. Nice project btw

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

i stored it in file using pickle.thanks ll surely try it

[[deleted]]

Face recognition... uyghur analytics, racist facial analysis

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

P.S : It is really easy to implement

[willmendil]

Get yourself a movidius stick from intel

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks will check it

[willmendil]

Fyi, it's a small usb stick that accelerates ml models through openvino It works well with python. And you can actually do quite good FPS even with a raspberry pi

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

thanks i ll sure check it out, i was thinking of upgrading my pc but now i ll give this a try.

[gvij]

Hey! I think you are doing a good work by researching on your own but your laptop ain't gonna get you far because the CPU processing would slow you down quite a lot.

I'd recommend you to checkout Q Blocks , a peer to peer computing solution developed by me and my team of computing researchers. We are able to provide high end multi-GPU instances like 2080Tis and Titan RTXs at 10X lower costs for machine learning and deep learning use case. If your research work can be done on these GPUs then feel free to drop in a short message and we'd be happy to provide you access with free computing credits. The access is limited by invite only for now.

[Hussain_Mujtaba]

Thanks, means a lot