Faceplugin-ltd/Open-Source-Face-Recognition-SDK

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An open-source face recognition SDK by Faceplugin providing face detection, landmark extraction, feature embedding generation, and face template matching via Python APIs. It runs fully on-premise on Windows and Linux, with optional GPU acceleration and no licensing fees.

Use cases

• detect faces in images
• extract facial landmarks
• generate face embeddings from photos
• compare two faces for similarity
• build 1:1 face verification
• build 1:N face identification
• run face recognition fully offline on-premise

When to choose

• you need free, on-premise face recognition on Windows or Linux
• you want a simple Python API for detection, landmarks, and matching
• privacy requires that biometric data never leaves your infrastructure
• you need CPU-only operation without mandatory GPU

When to avoid

• you need liveness detection, deepfake detection, or ID document verification (commercial SDKs)
• you need mobile (Android/iOS) support from this repo
• you require a formal open-source license for legal/compliance reasons (no license file)
• you need a managed cloud face recognition API

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computer-vision image-processing machine-learning deep-learning sdk computer-vision image-processing artificial-intelligence security windows python face-recognition face-detection face-landmarks face-embeddings biometrics on-premise identity-verification ekyc linux

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