FaceID

Trivial implementation of a facial recognition authentication system using dimensionality reduction technique PCA ("Eigenfaces") and computing face similarities using Euclidean Distance.

Note: This approach is very sensitive to lighting conditions, and should not be used for production authentication systems due to many vunerabilities associated with authenticating using a still 2D image and limitations of this approach.

Frontend (React)

Navigate to webapp folder and follow instructions below.

Set up

Install dependencies

yarn

Configuration

Create .env file and modify values as required

cp .env.example .env

Run Dev Server

yarn start

Build Production Assets

yarn build

Backend (Python)

Navigate to model folder and follow instructions below.

Set up

Install dependencies

python3 -m venv env
source ./env/bin/activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

Configuration

Create .env file and modify values as required

cp .env.example .env

Run Server

FLASK_APP=api.py flask run