Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
MMM-Face-Reco-DNN - All new Face Recognition
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Module are now Final and tested on real MagicMirror
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I will give it a go. I am getting mixed results with OCV3 facial recognition.
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After few days of installing (it takes a lot of time to build OpenCV 4.1 and dlib), trial and errors I finally installed and configured the module and oh boy is it good? Yes it is. It is much faster and accurate than Facial_Recognition_OCV3 that I used before. It was tottaly worth the time.
Thanks a lot to nischi for responding so quickly to the issues I posted on GitHub and to the enhansments he made based on my feedback.
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@Ivanov_d Thanks a lot, glad to hear that.
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as a Noob I have a few questions regarding the installation process - I passed now OpenCV:
At first for me it looks like this is the newest face recognition module and therefore I should go for installing this one instead of the other 2 options, right?
Now I finished the OpenCV installation by using the linked guide from pyimagesearch. There OpenCV was installed in an virtual environment. Is this important? Do I have to install all the libs like dlib or face recognition also in this virtual environment?
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Yes its the newest version of the face reco 😊
No its not that important that you use a virtual environment, bit with this you can also install different versions on the same machine. but if you have a virtual environment you need to install all dependencies ther, dlib and face reco too.
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@ChrizZz I followed the tutorial and installed OpenCV and all dependencies in a virtual environment, but that did not go very well afterwards, you have to reconfigure the module with the correct paths and that can be cumbersome, therefore I started on a clean state and installed OpenCV and the dependencies without a virtual envioronment - e.g. follow the same tutorial without the part related to virtual enviornment. That is the most appropriate for our use case.
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damn - 2nd try without a virtual environment.
@nischi: Is there a chance that you merge your module also with MMM-MotionDetector? Currently I use the camera to activate and deactive my screen and Google told me that it isn’t possible that 2 processes use the same camera. The suggested solution was to use a 2nd camera, merge both processes or stream the camera picture.
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@ChrizZz I have used camera motion detection and I gave it up, because:
- It is not very reliable (maybe it was just my cheap camera that I used for testing back then)
- it is resource hungry
Because of that I use an external wireless PIR sensor which is part of my smart home system to turn on/off my SmartMirror and it works great. Since the motion processing happens on my smart home system and the Mirror is turned on/off via SSH command it takes up no resources at all from the MagicMirror which is already at 60% load when using Facial Recognition.
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@ChrizZz
You can use my other Module https://github.com/nischi/MMM-MotionControl to control TV with my Face Reco Module. It communicate with Notifications and is not using an own Camera Stream.
