FaceRecognition

The Haar Cascades for face detection are NOT mine and can be found in OpenCV's GitHub repository

The Shape Predictor pre trained model is NOT mine and can be found in Davisking's dlib-models GitHub repository

The Face Recognition pre trained model is NOT mine and can be found in Davisking's dlib-models GitHub repository

Features

Identify the actors detected in an image

⚠️❗ The names of the movies are in Portuguese - known issue - being fixed ❗⚠️

Example 1 - Tom Cruise - in Mission Impossible 4 and in IMDB

Identifies Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 4 (left picture) and in the his IMDB page (rigth, used to encode 
his face the first time).

List the movies / series the detected actor have been together

Example 2 - Alexandra Daddario (in Baywatch)

Identifies Alexandra Daddario in Baywatch and lists the movies she's been in.

⚠️❗ The names of the movies are in Portuguese - known issue - being fixed ❗⚠️

Example 3 - Gal Gadot and Vin Diesel

Identifies Gal Gadot and Vin Diesel and lists the movies they've been in.

⚠️❗ The names of the movies are in Portuguese - known issue - being fixed ❗⚠️

⚠️❗ The names of the movies are in Portuguese - known issue - being fixed ❗⚠️

Requirements

* mss 				- Screen capture
* Numpy 			- Matrix calculations
* CSV				- Data storing and loading
* CV2				- Image rendering
* Dlib				- Face recognition
* requests			- HTTP requests
* BeautifulSoup 		- Image download

Download mss from BoboTig's GitHub repository

How to use

Download the pictures of the first X actors / actresses in IMDB

#Set IMAGES_TO_DONWLOAD in IMDBActors.py:11 to the number of images to be downloaded.
IMAGES_TO_DONWLOAD = 100 #Number of images to download. MUST BE A MULTIPLE OF 50. 

#Run the script to download the images. The images will be donwloaded to a folder with
#the name 'actors' created by the script in the same directory.
$ python IMDBActors.py

Run FaceDetection.py to detect all the faces on the screen. Only the top corner (0, 0) to (800, 600) is detected.

#Run the script to identify the actors / actresses. The movies / series where
#they have been together are listed in the terminal.
$ python FaceDetection.py

⚠️⚠️Known issues

* The names of the movies are in Portuguese;

✔️✔️Previously known issues - SHOULD be fixed now

* When a face is detected but the reply from IMDB is not expected, the program crashes;