Face recognition app with Dlib + Flask + Heroku + Docker

This project is a basic example of face recognition using Dlib library, which provides machine learning algorithms. In this example, we use Python 3.6, Dlib 19.21.1 and Flask 1.1.2.

Run locally with Docker

docker-compose up --build

Run locally with Conda

In the conda environment that you created for the project, there are 2 main dependencies to install.

conda install -c conda-forge dlib
conda install -c conda-forge opencv

Run locally with virtualenv

To run with virtualenv, you need to install some dependencies:

• Boost
• Boost.Python
• Cmake
• X11/XQuartx

After that, you need to create the virtual environment and install the dependencies.

python -m venv .

For Linux / OSX

# for linux / OSX
source myproject/bin/activate

#for windows
myproject\Scripts\activate

pip install -r requirements.txt