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Free and open-source face recognition with deep neural networks.

Getting Started

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Read the official documentation

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Best For

Teams building custom face recognition applications who need a comprehensive toolkit with multiple capabilities like landmark detection, head pose estimation, and facial action unit recognition

Developers working on projects that require self-hosted solutions for privacy or performance reasons

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