Install my Face-unlock on your Ubuntu

It’s FOSS…!

TL; DR

Install my software Facerec-Linux face unlock on your Ubuntu. It is highly optimized and it has a user-friendly CLI to operate it. You can install it just like any other ubuntu software with apt install. Check out the Installation guide here.

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Story

I first built this software around a year ago, as my academic project at my university. I decided its name to be Facerec. I ended up pushing it on GitHub with a set of instructions to install it. Initially, I didn’t expect a lot of people would use it. It didn’t have a friendly installation/usage guide. I was pleasantly surprised when people reach out to me via email and LinkedIn, with the problems they were facing. So I decided to put some more time to make it better and user friendly.

So I spent a few weeks on the project again. And this time I think I ended up making it quite amazing. I almost rewrote the entire codebase, and now I am officially releasing it as facerec v1.1, and it all was worth it. The response time is reduced by 70%, and it’s super-secure now. Also, I have created a PPA(personal package archive) for it. So, now you can install it just like any other Ubuntu software, with apt install .

What’s new

• The whole model has been updated for better performance.
• Improved security.
• Serious bug fixes such as frozen on the software center problem, etc.
• A much better CLI with additional features.
• Auto completions for the CLI. It is one of the trivial features I am extra proud of 😂
• A deb package, PPA, and a docker image for testing.

Contributions Welcome

• Bug reports, Feature requests and PRs will be highly appreciated.
• Dockerfile for the testing environment can be found here. (Will soon upload the image to docker hub)
• Currently, facerec is only supported on Ubuntu. Ping me if you want it for other distribution.

Installation

1. Update Sources

sudo apt update

2. add PPA to your machine

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rushabh-v/facerec

3. Install Facerec

sudo apt install facerec

4. Source bashrc

source ~/.bashrc

Command Line Interface

Screenshot from README

Check It Out

Check it out here. If you use Ubuntu, consider giving it a shot, For other distribution, you can check out howdy. You can read more about how I built this project here.

Link to the repo

rushabh-v/linux_face_unlock