# SeetaFace

SeetaFace 6: Newest open and free, full stack face recognization toolkit.

Repository: https://github.com/seetafaceengine/SeetaFace6
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/seetaface
Homepage: http://www.seetatech.com/
Language: C++
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2021-11-29T08:08:43+00:00
Link (homepage): http://www.seetatech.com/
Link (site_page): https://www.seetatech.com/about_st.html

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2348, "days_push": 1738, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1056, forks 235 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:24.645460+00:00)

## What it is
SeetaFace is an open-source, full-stack face recognition toolkit written in standard C++ with no third-party dependencies. It provides face detection, facial landmark localization (5/81 points), face feature extraction and comparison, plus face tracking and quality assessment modules.

## Use cases
- build a face recognition access control system
- detect and locate faces in images or video
- compare two face photos for identity verification
- run 1:N face search against a database of thousands of people
- track faces across video frames
- assess face image quality before recognition
- deploy face recognition on ARM embedded devices

## When to choose
- you need a self-contained C++ face recognition pipeline without heavy dependencies
- you must run face recognition on CPU-only x86 or ARM hardware
- you want an open-source alternative for access control or attendance systems

## When to avoid
- you need GPU-accelerated or state-of-the-art transformer-based face models
- you need a managed cloud face recognition API
- you work outside C++ and need first-class Python or web bindings

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: computer-vision, image-processing, machine-learning, sdk
- domain: computer-vision, image-processing, artificial-intelligence, security
- platform: windows, cpp, cross-platform
- tags: face-detection, face-recognition, facial-landmarks, face-tracking, cnn, no-dependencies, biometrics, linux, android

## Member repositories
- seetafaceengine/SeetaFace6 (main) score 32
- seetafaceengine/SeetaFace2 (mirror) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:24.645460+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:42:27.441567+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/seetafaceengine/SeetaFace6 (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:24.645460+00:00, sha 405642788ab8)
  - homepage: http://www.seetatech.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:56.640811+00:00, sha 43d6ae5bbd93)
  - site_page: https://www.seetatech.com/about_st.html (fetched 2026-08-29T10:22:56.650005+00:00, sha 45d225887b79)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.