Face Recognition Library in Python

Face recognition is the process or the method of recognizing faces based on their photos and videos and these systems are widely used in especially for law enforcement and caps.

The evolution of deep learning has made this kind of system possible using just some libraries like face recognition with python and that’s what we are discussing in this tutorial.

1. Installing The Environment

Before jumping to writing any code you have to install the IDE which is an abbreviation of Integrated Development Environment where you write your python code and run it.

There are a lot of python IDEs such as Pycharm, Jupyter Notebook, Anaconda, and more and I prefer to use Pycharm in this case because it has an easy way to use as well as installing the face recognition library which we are going to use in this episode.

The company known as JetBrains has created the pycharm IDE has provided us many versions of this software depending on your operating system that you are using such as Windows, Linux, and macOS so make sure to install the appropriate version, and let’s jump into coding the program.

2. Installing the Library

The face recognition library is available in Github and it has more than 38k stars meaning many developers have used this library and it has a good reputation.