How to build a custom face recognition dataset - PyImageSearch

If you are already using a pre-curated dataset, such as Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW), then the hard work is done for you. You'll be able to use next week's blog post to create your facial recognition application. But for most of us, we'll instead want to recognize faces that are not part of any current dataset and recognize faces of ourselves, friends, family members, coworkers and colleagues, etc. To accomplish this, we need to gather examples of faces we want to recognize and then quantify them in some manner. This process is typically referred to as facial recognition enrollment. We call it "enrollment" because we are "enrolling" and "registering" the user as an example person in our dataset and application.