Face Recognition Systems ML Frameworks

Complete implementations and applications of face recognition pipelines including detection, embedding extraction, and identification. Does NOT include general face detection alone, facial attribute analysis, or emotion/expression classification.

There are 104 face recognition systems frameworks tracked. 1 score above 70 (verified tier). The highest-rated is serengil/deepface at 78/100 with 22,373 stars and 878,086 monthly downloads.

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#	Framework	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	serengil/deepface A Lightweight Face Recognition and Facial Attribute Analysis (Age, Gender,...	78	Verified	22,373	Python
2	ishandutta0098/mukh A comprehensive face analysis library that provides unified APIs for various...	58	Established	341	Python
3	tomas-gajarsky/facetorch Python library for analysing faces using PyTorch	52	Established	606	Python
4	cmusatyalab/openface Face recognition with deep neural networks.	51	Established	15,407	Lua
5	davidsandberg/facenet Face recognition using Tensorflow	51	Established	14,313	Python
6	ZhaoJ9014/face.evoLVe 🔥🔥High-Performance Face Recognition Library on PaddlePaddle & PyTorch🔥🔥	51	Established	3,586	Python
7	akshaybahadur21/Facial-Recognition-using-Facenet A simple implementation of facial recognition using facenets for humans 🧔 🔍	46	Emerging	291	Python
8	Astrotomic/php-deepface A PHP adapter for the python deepface framework.	45	Emerging	53	PHP
9	krasserm/face-recognition Deep face recognition with Keras, Dlib and OpenCV	44	Emerging	383	Jupyter Notebook
10	fendouai/FaceRank FaceRank - Rank Face by CNN Model based on TensorFlow (add keras version)....	44	Emerging	856	Python
11	wy1iu/sphereface Implementation for	44	Emerging	1,602	Jupyter Notebook
12	iitzco/faced 🚀 😏 Near Real Time CPU Face detection using deep learning	44	Emerging	552	Python
13	becauseofAI/awesome-face An awesome face technology repository.	42	Emerging	1,298	HTML
14	vortezwohl/medusa-vision A light-weight facial attribute recognition and face embedding calculation library.	36	Emerging	6	Python
15	Alireza-Akhavan/deep-face-recognition One-shot Learning and deep face recognition notebooks and workshop materials	36	Emerging	229	Jupyter Notebook
16	chenriwei/DeepFace Face analysis mainly based on Caffe. At this time, face analysis tasks like...	36	Emerging	1,507	Python
17	fdbtrs/mixfacenets Official repository for MixFaceNets: Extremely Efficient Face Recognition Networks	35	Emerging	70	Python
18	aws-solutions/liveness-detection-framework A framework that helps you implement liveness detection mechanisms into your...	35	Emerging	45	TypeScript
19	ydwen/opensphere A hyperspherical face recognition library based on PyTorch	34	Emerging	296	Jupyter Notebook
20	FaceONNX/FaceONNX.Models Face recognition and analytics library based on deep neural networks and...	32	Emerging	27	—
21	ORNL/faro Face Recognition from Oak Ridge (FaRO) provides a well-defined server-client...	30	Emerging	6	Jupyter Notebook
22	clementapa/CelebFaces_Attributes_Classification This repository is related to a project of the Introduction to Numerical...	29	Experimental	33	Jupyter Notebook
23	TassAI/TASS-Facenet TASS Facenet uses Siamese Neural Networks and Triplet Loss to classify known...	29	Experimental	11	Python
24	vanl214/Face-Recognition 📷 Build a real-time face recognition system using Python and OpenCV to...	28	Experimental	2	Python
25	RasulAlakbarli/Face_Recognition_w_DeepFace This repo is a Python implementation that utilizes the DeepFace library and...	28	Experimental	17	Jupyter Notebook
26	sonhl0723/yale-face-dataset-recognition Face Recognition Model(CNN) Using Yale Face Dataset & Establishing...	28	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
27	kiselev1189/insightface-just-works Insightface face detection and recognition model that just works out of the box.	27	Experimental	121	Jupyter Notebook
28	ahmedbadr97/conv-facenet using convnext as base model for face recognition	27	Experimental	9	Jupyter Notebook
29	subhadipsinha722133/Real-Time-Face-Recognition-App 🤖Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision A Python-based Face...	26	Experimental	4	Python
30	EdisonLinks/Python-CV_demo 基于 PyTorch 的轻量级人脸识别项目。采用 MobileFaceNet + ArcFace 算法，实现毫秒级实时人脸检测与识别，支持中文姓名显示与...	26	Experimental	3	Python
31	kennbro-buc/Fecalface This project (PoC for now, and part of Shit Bucket) involves face detection,...	26	Experimental	6	Python
32	ZHThinker/RealTime-Face-Eye-Identifier 🤖 Track faces and eyes in real-time with this high-performance Python and...	26	Experimental	7	Objective-C
33	ph-phuc/faceprecision Faceprecision is a comprehensive face analysis project leveraging advanced...	25	Experimental	15	Jupyter Notebook
34	zakariaelaoufi/Arcface-Pytorch Face recognition using arcface, additive angular margin loss	25	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
35	robinreni96/Automatic-Face-Detection-Annotation-and-Preprocessing Its an open source code to easily preprocess your images for mapping faces...	24	Experimental	16	Python
36	chutrunganh/Biometric_IT4432E Developed for the Biometric Course (Semester 20241) at HUST, this project...	24	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
37	amogh9594/facial-recognition-simplilearn Dataset Link :- https://www.dropbox.com/s/i7uzp5yxk7wruva/ORL_faces.npz?dl=0	23	Experimental	10	Jupyter Notebook
38	JaoBufAnalog/liveness-check Liveness-check offers a simple way to ensure your Kubernetes pods are ready...	23	Experimental	1	Go
39	EngMarchG/Fsg-Pp Fsg-Pp's purpose is to automate profile picture searching using machine learning!	23	Experimental	19	Python
40	dubey-astha/Face_Recognition_Arcface High-accuracy Face Recognition using ArcFace & InsightFace	23	Experimental	5	JavaScript
41	198thread/lineup recognition of faces for the web	22	Experimental	7	Python
42	Mih-Nig-Afe/SocialVision-Facial-Recognition-Search An intelligent social facial recognition system for real-time identity...	22	Experimental	3	Python
43	Erickesau/Orion-Face-Recognition-system Recognize faces from camera and pictures with futuristic gui design	22	Experimental	7	Python
44	ReynaraEzra/Liveness-Detection An overview of face liveness detection	22	Experimental	43	Jupyter Notebook
45	start-again-006/Face-Recognition Computer vision project implementing face recognition and verification using...	22	Experimental	—	Python
46	henrysrtaylor/face-recognition-eigenface Basic theory, tutorial and demo for face recognition using Eigenfaces (PCA) approach.	22	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
47	LeonardVG/cv-study-03-face-recognition-lbph Implementação de sistema de Reconhecimento Facial utilizando o algoritmo...	22	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
48	mertz1999/Sima-Face-Recognition Sima is a Face verification Pytorch project.	21	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
49	IgorVolochay/Face-recognition A machine-learning program designed to detect faces in a photo and then...	21	Experimental	11	Jupyter Notebook
50	tulsyanp/tcd-ai-group-project Face Recognition with SVM classifier using PCA, ICA, NMF, LDA reduced face vectors	20	Experimental	12	Python
51	zeke/github-avatars A machine learning model to detect whether a GitHub user has a custom or...	20	Experimental	12	Jupyter Notebook
52	SashenJayathilaka/Machine_Learning-Deep-Learning-And-AI Building a Website with Django (Face Detector App, Python Core Concepts,...	20	Experimental	32	Jupyter Notebook
53	GeorgeVasiliadis/pyfron An OpenDR-based face recognition CLI app	20	Experimental	2	Python
54	ksasi/face-recognition Fine-Tune popular face-recognition architectures with LFW and QMUL-Survface...	20	Experimental	12	Python
55	IvLabs/Face-Unlock Face Recognition project for automatic door unlock system.	20	Experimental	16	Jupyter Notebook
56	NAKULMAK05/InSightID-AI-Based-Face-Recognition An advanced and Accurate face Recognition System	19	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
57	NadavIs56/Face-Detection-and-Recognition An intuitive Python-based face recognition system that identifies...	19	Experimental	10	Python
58	Vatshayan/Face-Detection-Project Final Year college Face Detection Project with Project Report, Project PPT,...	19	Experimental	44	Jupyter Notebook
59	kim1102/VIGFace VIGFACE: Virtual Identity Generation for Privacy-Free Face Recognition	19	Experimental	5	—
60	M-Taghizadeh/Deep-Face-Recognition In this repository, we implement and review state of the art papers in the...	18	Experimental	8	Jupyter Notebook
61	TiagoSanti/face-recognition Facial detection and recognition using FaceRecognitionDotNet	17	Experimental	5	C#
62	jankozik/mobile-face A face recognition solution on mobile device.	16	Experimental	26	Python
63	Abdeljalil-Ounaceur/Real-Time-Face-Recognition-and-Surveillance-System A real-time surveillance system using VGG-Face for facial recognition,...	16	Experimental	3	Jupyter Notebook
64	Klealp/Sistema-de-Reconocimiento-Facial-con-FaceNet Sistema de Reconocimiento Facial en Python utilizando el modelo MobileNet...	16	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
65	oreopot/face-attributes-prediction Flask API that returns JSON response of features observed in the image supplied.	16	Experimental	2	JavaScript
66	charliewwdev/Recognizer 采用python的面部识别	16	Experimental	3	JavaScript
67	gbennnn/facial-landmarks-detection Detects a person’s age range, gender, and facial landmarks in real time via...	15	Experimental	5	Python
68	bradleyboyuyang/STAT4012-Deep-Learning Celebrity face recognition using MTCNN and FaceNet	15	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
69	SyedMuhammadFaheem/FacialRecognition Face Recognition System written on Python using openCV. It also includes a...	15	Experimental	2	Python
70	a-tabaza/face-morphing Face morphing in Python using OpenCV and dlib	15	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
71	royxlead/deep-learning-facial-recognition-python Deep Learning Facial Recognition — A Python-based Siamese network...	15	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
72	AsadiAhmad/Face-Recognition Implementing face recognition in videos using OpenCV’s deep learning models...	15	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
73	PB2204/Face-Recognition-System This Is A Real Time Face Recognition System AI Model Using Python & Some Of...	15	Experimental	22	Python
74	Herambha1226/FaceVision-SVM A full-stack face recognition application that uses OpenCV for face...	14	Experimental	—	Python
75	kikirizki/face_analizer Deep learning based face recognition, face detection, emotion recognition	14	Experimental	7	Python
76	BeiChenStanly/face_recognition ResNet & Arcface powered face recognition.	14	Experimental	4	Python
77	zakari4/internship-2026-facerec A comprehensive 6-month R&D project focused on State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Face...	14	Experimental	—	—
78	Vidhi1290/Face-Recognition-System-in-Python-using-FaceNet Dive into the world of computer vision! Our Image Classification from Video...	14	Experimental	7	Jupyter Notebook
79	MahanVeisi8/Face_recognition A Flask-based celebrity face recognition system using an ensemble model...	14	Experimental	11	Jupyter Notebook
80	juniornarvaez2003/CelebFace-A-Deep-Learning-Flask-App-for-Face-Recognition 👤 Recognize faces in images instantly with this Flask app leveraging deep...	14	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
81	DmytroGural/deepface-rest-api DeepFace REST API is a production-grade REST API for DeepFace — a...	14	Experimental	—	Python
82	jaychampaneri14/face-recognition-system DeepFace-based face recognition and verification	14	Experimental	—	Python
83	deepankarvarma/Computer-Vision-Basics Face recognition is the problem of identifying and verifying people in a...	14	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
84	Arlchoose-code/ArLface-Recognition ArLface Recognition is an open-source face recognition system built with...	13	Experimental	2	HTML
85	NoahCristino/SmileDetector https://smiledetector.herokuapp.com/	13	Experimental	5	CSS
86	AtticusZeller/BoostFace 😎real time fullstack face recognition system	13	Experimental	8	Python
87	2000pawan/Smart-Face-Recognition-System 👁️ Smart Face Recognition System using Machine Learning This is a GUI-based...	13	Experimental	2	Jupyter Notebook
88	Jarnster/FaceLink Face recognition with multi-location support. Provides an analyzer backend...	13	Experimental	7	PHP
89	kavin-raja-d/Tailored_Model_Detection_Systems The Face Detection Project is a Python-based application that uses machine...	12	Experimental	4	Jupyter Notebook
90	ashishtrivedi16/HyperFace Contains the implementation of HyperFace: A deep multi task learning...	12	Experimental	14	Jupyter Notebook
91	Jipy815/Face-recognition A Python-based face recognition system using OpenCV and face recognition...	12	Experimental	1	JavaScript
92	UttamPaswan07/Face-Recognition Uses the CNN model to detect the face	11	Experimental	—	Python
93	zolppy/celebrity-face-recognition Celebrity face recognition system built using deep learning. It leverages a...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
94	jain-pratham/Adaptive-Face-Recognition-Engine Real time adaptive face recognition system using opencv and machine learning...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
95	federicoparroni/Face2Face Deep convolutional network for face matching	11	Experimental	2	JavaScript
96	jayakrishnagaddam/Face-Recognition-from-Videos A basic and an AI Powered Deep Learning project that recognizes Faces in...	11	Experimental	2	HTML
97	DHARKIVE-STUDIO/BTS-Face-Recognition Implementing a Siamese Neural Network for One-Shot Face Recognition. A...	11	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
98	Irayago/UWB-CSSE-Capstone An application that utilizes convolutional neural networks to recognize...	11	Experimental	—	MATLAB
99	FrancescaPietrobon/Face-Anti-Spoofing Project of the course Advanced Programming for Scientific Computing of...	11	Experimental	—	C++
100	b454k/face-recognition Face analysis using deep learning and computer vision.	11	Experimental	—	Python
101	DonOfTheFuture/SafeBook Lockable digital notebook that can encrypt data and is unlocked using face...	10	Experimental	1	HTML
102	AnandaRauf/Fadecton-Face-Detection Fadecton is software face detection people with using webcam.	10	Experimental	1	—
103	LeHibouMT/TIPE-FACIAL_RECOGNITION Eigenfaces Program and Neural Network created from scratch that can...	10	Experimental	1	Python
104	PaoloMadda01/OpencvApi2 This is an API written in Python using the Django framework. It performs...	10	Experimental	1	Python

Comparisons in this category

deepface and openface (78 vs 51) deepface and face.evoLVe (78 vs 51) deepface and DeepFace (78 vs 36) deepface and awesome-face (78 vs 42) deepface and faced (78 vs 44) deepface and face-recognition (78 vs 44) deepface and php-deepface (78 vs 45) facenet and Facial-Recognition-using-Facenet (51 vs 46)