A TensorFlow backed FaceNet implementation for Node.js, which can solve face verification, recognition and clustering problems.

FaceNet is a deep convolutional network designed by Google, trained to solve face verification, recognition and clustering problem with efficiently at scale.

1. directly learns a mapping from face images to a compact Euclidean space where distances directly correspond to a measure of face similarity.
2. optimize the embedding face recognition performance using only 128-bytes per face.
3. achieves accuracy of 99.63% on Labeled Faces in the Wild (LFW) dataset, and 95.12% on YouTube Faces DB.

npm install facenet numjs flash-store

1. numjs
2. flash-store

The follow examples will give you some intuitions for using the code.

1. demo exmaple will show you how to do align for face alignment and embedding to get face feature vector.
2. visualize example will calculate the similarity between faces and draw them on the photo.

TL;DR: Talk is cheap, show me the code!

import { Facenet } from 'facenet'

const facenet = new Facenet()

// Do Face Alignment, return faces
const imageFile = `${__dirname}/../tests/fixtures/two-faces.jpg`
const faceList = await facenet.align(imageFile)

for (const face of faceList) {
  console.info('bounding box:',  face.boundingBox)
  console.info('landmarks:',     face.facialLandmark)

  // Calculate Face Embedding, return feature vector
  const embedding = await facenet.embedding(face)
  console.info('embedding:', embedding)
}
faceList[0].embedding = await facenet.embedding(faceList[0])
faceList[1].embedding = await facenet.embedding(faceList[1])
console.info('distance between the different face: ', faceList[0].distance(faceList[1]))
console.info('distance between the same face:      ', faceList[0].distance(faceList[0]))

Full source code can be found at here: https://github.com/huan/node-facenet/blob/master/examples/demo.ts

The output should be something like:

image file: /home/zixia/git/facenet/examples/../tests/fixtures/two-faces.jpg
face file: 1-1.jpg
bounding box: {
  p1: { x: 360, y: 95 }, 
  p2: { x: 589, y: 324 } 
}
landmarks: { 
  leftEye:  { x: 441, y: 181 },
  rightEye: { x: 515, y: 208 },
  nose:     { x: 459, y: 239 },
  leftMouthCorner:  { x: 417, y: 262 },
  rightMouthCorner: { x: 482, y: 285 } 
}
embedding: array([ 0.02453, 0.03973, 0.05397, ..., 0.10603, 0.15305,-0.07288])

face file: 1-2.jpg
bounding box: { 
  p1: { x: 142, y: 87 }, 
  p2: { x: 395, y: 340 } 
}
landmarks: { 
  leftEye:  { x: 230, y: 186 },
  rightEye: { x: 316, y: 197 },
  nose:     { x: 269, y: 257 },
  leftMouthCorner:  { x: 223, y: 273 },
  rightMouthCorner: { x: 303, y: 281 } 
}
embedding: array([ 0.03241, -0.0737,  0.0475, ..., 0.07235, 0.12581,-0.00817])

1. Face is in the green rectangle.
2. Similarity(distance) between faces showed as a number in the middle of the line.
3. To identify if two faces belong to the same person, we could use an experiential threshold of distance: 0.75.

$ git clone git@github.com:zixia/node-facenet.git
$ cd facenet
$ npm install
$ npm run example:visualize

01:15:43 INFO CLI Visualized image saved to:  facenet-visulized.jpg

Get the two face's distance, the smaller the number is, the similar of the two face

import { Facenet } from 'facenet'

const facenet = new Facenet()
const imageFile = `${__dirname}/../tests/fixtures/two-faces.jpg`

const faceList = await facenet.align(imageFile)
faceList[0].embedding = await facenet.embedding(faceList[0])
faceList[1].embedding = await facenet.embedding(faceList[1])
console.info('distance between the different face: ', faceList[0].distance(faceList[1]))
console.info('distance between the same face:      ', faceList[0].distance(faceList[0]))

Output:
distance between the different face: 1.2971515811057608 distance between the same face: 0

In the example, faceList[0] is totally the same with faceList[0], so the number is 0 faceList[1] is different with faceList[1], so the number is big. If the number is smaller than 0.75, maybe they are the same person.

Full source code can be found at here: https://github.com/huan/node-facenet/blob/master/examples/distance.ts

Recognize the face and save the face to local file.

import { Facenet } from 'facenet'

const facenet = new Facenet()
const imageFile = `${__dirname}/../tests/fixtures/two-faces.jpg`

const faceList = await facenet.align(imageFile)
for (const face of faceList) {
  await face.save(face.md5 + '.jpg')
  console.info(`save face ${face.md5} successfuly`)
}
console.info(`Save ${faceList.length} faces from the imageFile`)

Full source code can be found at here: https://github.com/huan/node-facenet/blob/master/examples/get-face.ts

UNDER HEAVY DEVELOPMENT NOW

Roadmap: release facenet-manager on version 0.8

See auto generated docs

npm install facenet

Supported:

• Linux
• Mac
• Windows

1. Node.js >= 7 (8 is recommend)
2. Tensorflow >= 1.2
3. Python3 >=3.5 (3.6 is recommend)

Make sure you run those commands under Ubuntu 17.04:

sudo apt install python3-pip
pip3 install setuptools --upgrade

If you are dealing with very large images(like 3000x3000 pixels), there will need additional 1GB of memory.

So I believe that Facenet will need at least 2GB memory, and >=4GB is recommended.

Neural Network alone is not enough. It's Neural Network married with pre-trained model, married with easy to use APIs, that yield us the result that makes our APP sing.

Facenet is designed for bring the state-of-art neural network with bleeding-edge technology to full stack developers.

import { Facenet } from 'facenet'

const facenet = new Facenet()
facenet.quit()

Do face alignment for the image, return a list of faces.

Get the embedding for a face.

face.embedding = await facenet.embedding(face)

Get the 128 dim embedding vector for this face.(After alignment)

import { Face } from 'facenet'

console.info('bounding box:',  face.boundingBox)
console.info('landmarks:',     face.facialLandmark)
console.info('embedding:',     face.embedding)

FaceNet neural network model files, set to other version of model as you like.

Default is set to models/ directory inside project directory. The pre-trained models is come from 20170512-110547, 0.992, MS-Celeb-1M, Inception ResNet v1, which will be download & save automatically by postinstall script.

$ pwd
/home/zixia/git/node-facenet

$ ls models/
20170512-110547.pb
model-20170512-110547.ckpt-250000.index
model-20170512-110547.ckpt-250000.data-00000-of-00001
model-20170512-110547.meta

git clone git@github.com:zixia/node-facenet.git
cd facenet
npm install
npm test

Draw a rectangle with five landmarks on all faces in the input_image, save it to output_image.

./node_modules/.bin/ts-node bin/align.ts input_image output_image

Output the 128 dim embedding vector of the face image.

./node_modules/.bin/ts-node bin/embedding.ts face_image

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• PEP 8 - Style Guide for Python Code
• Python 3.6 venv — Creation of virtual environments

• Mypy syntax cheat sheet (Python 3)
• Python 3 Type Hints and Static Analysis
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• Stackoverflow: numpy-like package for node
• Read/manipulate/display images using NumJs
• Numjs - Like NumPy, in JavaScript
• ndarray - Modular multidimensional arrays for JavaScript

1. LFW - Labeled Faces in the Wild

• NPM Module: facenet
• Docker Image: zixia/facenet
• Examples
  • API Usage Demo
  • Triple Distance Visulization Demo
  • Performance Test(Align/Embedding/Batch)
  • Validation Test(LFW Accuracy)
• Neural Network Models
  • Facenet
  • Mtcnn
  • Batch Support
• Python3 async & await
• Divide Different Neural Network to seprate class files(e.g. Facenet/Mtcnn)
• K(?)NN Alghorithm Chinese Whispers
• TensorFlow Sereving
• OpenAPI Specification(Swagger)

This repository is heavily inspired by the following implementations:

• FaceNet by David Sandberg @davidsandberg
• OpenFace by CMU Satya Lab @cmusatyalab

1. Face alignment using MTCNN: Joint Face Detection and Alignment using Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks
2. Face embedding using FaceNet: FaceNet: A Unified Embedding for Face Recognition and Clustering
3. TensorFlow implementation of the face recognizer: Face recognition using Tensorflow

[![Powered by FaceNet](https://img.shields.io/badge/Powered%20By-FaceNet-green.svg)](https://github.com/huan/node-facenet)

1. Added facenet-manager command line tool for demo/validate/sort photos
2. Switch to FlashStore npm module as key-value database

1. Added three cache classes: AlignmentCache & EmbeddingCache & FaceCache.
2. Added cache manager utilities: embedding-cache-manager & alignment-cache-manager & face-cache-manager
3. Added Dataset manager utility: lfw-manager (should be dataset-manager in future)
4. BREAKING CHANGE: Face class refactoring.

1. Facenet#align() now accept a filename string as parameter.
2. BREAKING CHANGE: FaceImage class had been removed.
3. BREAKING CHANGE: Face class refactoring.

1. npm run demo to visuliaze the face alignment and distance(embedding) in a three people photo.
2. Facenet.align() to do face alignment
3. Facenet.embedding() to calculate the 128 dim feature vector of face
4. Initial workable version

more os see node-canvas Wiki.

1. facenet-manager display not right under Windows

See: Running Terminal Dashboards on Windows

1. Error when install: No package 'XXX' found

It's related with the NPM module canvas.

Error messages:

1. No package 'pixman-1' found
2. No package 'cairo' found
3. No package 'pangocairo' found

Solution for Ubuntu 17.04:

sudo apt install -y libpixman-1-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libcairo2-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libpango1.0-dev

Solution for Mac:

brew install python3
brew install pkg-config
brew install cairo
brew install pango
brew install libpng
brew install libjpeg

1. Error when install: fatal error: jpeglib.h: No such file or directory

It's related with the NPM module canvas.

Solution for Ubuntu 17.04:

sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg-dev

1. Error when run: Error: error while reading from input stream

It is related with the libjpeg package

Solution for Mac:

brew install libjpeg

1. Error when run:

Error: Cannot find module '../build/Release/canvas.node'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:527:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:476:23)
    at Module.require (module.js:568:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/jiaruili/git/node-facenet/node_modules/canvas/lib/bindings.js:3:18)
    at Module._compile (module.js:624:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:635:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:545:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:508:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:500:3)

It seems the package not installed in a right way, like sharp, canvas, remove the package and reinstall it.

run

rm -rf node node_modules/canvas
// if sharp, then remove sharp folder
npm install

1. Error when install

> facenet@0.3.19 postinstall:models /Users/jiaruili/git/rui/node-facenet
> set -e && if [ ! -d models ]; then mkdir models; fi && cd models && if [ ! -f model.tar.bz2 ]; then curl --location --output model.tar.bz2.tmp https://github.com/huan/node-facenet/releases/download/v0.1.9/model-20170512.tar.bz2; mv model.tar.bz2.tmp model.tar.bz2; fi && tar jxvf model.tar.bz2 && cd -

x 20170512-110547.pb
x model-20170512-110547.ckpt-250000.data-00000-of-00001: (Empty error message)
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

It seems this because not get the full model file successfully. See #issue63

Solution:

download the file from https://github.com/huan/node-facenet/releases/download/v0.1.9/model-20170512.tar.bz2 rename the file model.tar.bz2 and move it to the folder models try npm install again

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Huan LI <zixia@zixia.net> (http://linkedin.com/in/zixia)

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• Code released under the Apache-2.0 License
• Docs released under Creative Commons