Is the task in lfw_eval.py exactly the face recognition?

[rrryan2016]

Thanks for your great work and kind sharing.

I am a beginner in the face area of CV. And I get confused in the evaluation process. According to the lfw_eval.py,

sphereface_pytorch/lfw_eval.py

Lines 102 to 103 in e2f11f0

	img1 = alignment(cv2.imdecode(np.frombuffer(zfile.read(name1),np.uint8),1),landmark[name1])
	img2 = alignment(cv2.imdecode(np.frombuffer(zfile.read(name2),np.uint8),1),landmark[name2])

it loads 2 face images, and the model's output is to predict is these 2 images from a single identity.

I did a lot of reading and searching, but cannot sure about is the task in lfw_eval.py exactly the face recognition?

[rrryan2016]

In my point of view, in lfw_eval.py, it is face verification, and face verification is a part of face recognition.

But not sure about it :P