Video search with Face Recognition

Talk @ Applied Machine Learning days 2020 - Google slides

About Face Recognition

• dlib C++ ML toolkit with built-in Face Recognition - GitHub
• TensorFlow.js blazeface model - online demo / GitHub

Other tools used

• Visualizing data using t-SNE presented by Laurens van der Maaten
• Chinese Whispers clustering method

Troubleshooting

If dlib fails to import, activate the environment and reinstall it via conda-forge

conda install -c conda-forge dlib

When running the notebook on your machine in Jupyter Lab, you will need to activate the ipywidgets plugin by running this command in the Conda environment

jupyter labextension install @jupyter-widgets/jupyterlab-manager

Credits

• Bolivian dancers by Milica Spasojevic
• Stephen Hawking by Pete Souza
• Solvay conference 1927 by Benjamin Couprie
• Swiss cow by Paul Hanaoka
• Model .dat files from dlib-models GitHub repository