OpenCV Face Recognition - PyImageSearch

In this tutorial, you will learn how to use OpenCV to perform face recognition. To build our face recognition system, we'll first perform face detection, extract face embeddings from each face using deep learning, train a face recognition model on the embeddings, and then finally recognize faces in both images and video streams with OpenCV. Today's tutorial is also a special gift for my fiance e, Trisha (who is now officially my wife). Our wedding was over the weekend, and by the time you're reading this blog post, we'll be at the airport preparing to board our flight for the honeymoon. To celebrate the occasion, and show her how much her support of myself, the PyImageSearch blog, and the PyImageSearch community means to me, I decided to use OpenCV to perform face recognition on a dataset of our faces. You can swap in your own dataset of faces of course! All you need to do is follow my directory structure in insert your own face images. As a bonus, I've also included how to label "unknown" faces that cannot be classified with sufficient confidence. To learn how to perform OpenCV face recognition, just keep reading!