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Top 23 Python face-detection Projects
- Project mention: Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-11
Did you look at egoblur? its a lot more effective at face detection than https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition granted, you'd have to do your own face matching to do exception.
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- Project mention: Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-04
Ask for credit card verification and a live webcam stream to verify your face while you are watching the video.
We have AI models who can estimate age and gender on mobile:
https://github.com/deepinsight/insightface/blob/master/attri...
Then punish illegal websites and the ISPs who serve such contents.
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PaddleDetection
Object Detection toolkit based on PaddlePaddle. It supports object detection, instance segmentation, multiple object tracking and real-time multi-person keypoint detection.
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facenet-pytorch
Pretrained Pytorch face detection (MTCNN) and facial recognition (InceptionResnet) models
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Face-tracking-with-Anime-characters
Hello! I have made a Python project where YURI from the game doki doki literature club accesses the webcam and stares directly into the players soul. Hope you enjoy!
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I built Palette by Momo (https://www.palettebymomo.com) for fun, to democratize seasonal color analysis. Traditional color consultations cost $100-300 and require in-person appointments, but I wanted something instant and accessible that anyone could use from their phone.
Seasonal color analysis helps people find the most flattering colors for their skin tone, hair, and eyes. It's incredibly popular on TikTok and Instagram, but professional consultations are geographically limited and costs $100 to $300. I tried a couple of other apps and my attempts often fail because it's genuinely difficult to assess your own coloring objectively.
I integrated the SkinToneClassifier library (https://github.com/ChenglongMa/SkinToneClassifier), which uses face detection, skin segmentation, and k-means clustering to determine skin tone categories. The library is actually quite elegant - it extracts dominant colors from detected facial areas and maps them to established color palettes used in professional analysis. I used FastAPI for the skintone analysis backend and really liked the developer experience.
The FastAPI endpoint processes the uploaded image, runs it through the skin tone classifier, and returns a comprehensive color palette tailored to the user's analysis.
How It Works:
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PetFace
[ECCV 2024 Oral] PetFace: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Animal Identification https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13555
Yes, I've worked in this space for dogs (for re-identifying animals that have been vaccinated for rabies). It's a very difficult problem, but mostly because getting/scraping good training data is difficult. You really want lots of paired images of the same animal and that's hard compared to searching for "cat".
Tricks include facial alignment + cropping and very strong constraints on orientation to make sure you have a good frontal image (apps will give users photo alignment markers). Otherwise it's a standard visual seatch. Run a face extraction model to get the crop, warp to standard key points, compute the crop embedding, store in a database and do a nearest neighbour lookup.
There are a few startups doing this. Also look at PetFace which was a benchmark released a year or so ago. Not a huge amount of work in this area compared to humans, but it's of interest to people like cattle farmers as well.
https://github.com/mapooon/PetFace
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GEFF
Official implementation of the paper GEFF: Improving Any Clothes-Changing Person ReID Model using Gallery Enrichment with Face Features.
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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
Python face-detection discussion
Python face-detection related posts
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Show HN: Real-time privacy protection for smart glasses
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Porn sites go dark in France over new age verification rules
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Indexing iCloud Photos with AI Using LLaVA and Pgvector
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Security Image Recognition
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Facial recognition software/API for face-blind teacher?
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InsightFace are trying to kill off AI competitors on YouTube
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GitHub - ageitgey/face_recognition: The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
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Index
What are some of the best open-source face-detection projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Face Recognition | 55,756 |
| 2 | insightface | 27,380 |
| 3 | facenet | 14,207 |
| 4 | PaddleDetection | 13,989 |
| 5 | face-alignment | 7,442 |
| 6 | facenet-pytorch | 5,088 |
| 7 | ailia-models | 2,296 |
| 8 | retinaface | 1,841 |
| 9 | OpenSeeFace | 1,773 |
| 10 | deface | 894 |
| 11 | DeepStack | 805 |
| 12 | facetorch | 604 |
| 13 | anime-face-detector | 476 |
| 14 | Face-tracking-with-Anime-characters | 417 |
| 15 | Tiny_Faces_in_Tensorflow | 383 |
| 16 | SkinToneClassifier | 176 |
| 17 | FaceRecognitionSecurity | 176 |
| 18 | CheekyKeys | 169 |
| 19 | The-Machine | 94 |
| 20 | PetFace | 85 |
| 21 | blurfaces | 76 |
| 22 | light-anime-face-detector | 71 |
| 23 | GEFF | 69 |
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