facereclib 1.0.0a1

Compare a variety of face recognition algorithms by running them on many image databases with default protocols.

Welcome to the Face Recognition Library. This library is designed to perform a fair comparison of face recognition algorithms. It contains scripts to execute various kinds of face recognition experiments on a variety of facial image databases.

Installation

Currently the library is only available as a private project of bioidiap at GitHub. To check out the current version of the FaceRecLib, go to the console, move to any place you like and call:

$ git clone [e-mail]:bioidiap/facereclib.git

Note

If you already have an older version of the FaceRecLib, just re-base the repository by calling (from within your local copy):

$ git config remote.origin.url [e-mail]:bioidiap/facereclib.git
$ git pull

The FaceRecLib is a satellite package of Bob. You will need a copy of it to run the algoritms. Please download Bob from its webpage.

Note

At Idiap, Bob is globally installed and you can use its current version.

After downloading, you should go to the console and write:

$ python bootstrap.py
$ bin/buildout
$ bin/sphinx-build docs sphinx

This will download all required packages and install them locally. If you don’t want all the database packages to be downloaded, please remove the xbob.db.[database] lines from the eggs section of the file buildout.cfg in the main directory before calling the three commands above.

Now, you can open the documentation by typing:

$ firefox sphinx/index.html

and read further instructions on how to use this library.