face_recognition

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56,834

Forks

13,677

Open issues and pull requests

832

Primary language

Python

License

MIT License (MIT)

Owner

ageitgey · Personal account

Created

Mar 3, 2017

Last push

Jun 25, 2026

Topics

• face-detection
• face-recognition
• machine-learning
• python

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