Bulk Face Enrollment

The Bulk Face Enrollment feature allows for enrolling faces to findface-facenapi from images in bulk.

In this section:

General Information

You can bulk-enroll faces in one of the following ways:

  • from images in a current directory,

  • from images in a given subdirectory,

  • from images from all subdirectories.

To install the Bulk Face Enrollment component, execute:

sudo apt-get install findface-mass-enroll

To display the component help message, execute:

findface-mass-enroll --help
## $ findface-mass-enroll --help
Usage: findface-mass-enroll [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

Options:
  --job PATH  Job file (default: ffmassenroll.job)
  --help      Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  prepare  Prepare upload job
  print    Print contents of job file as JSON
  run      Run upload job

$ findface-mass-enroll prepare --help
Usage: findface-mass-enroll prepare [OPTIONS] [IMAGES]...

  This subcommand is used to prepare one or more job files for subsequent
  runs.

  Examples:

  Enrolling all *.jpg files in current directory with meta 'Phillip J. Fry':

  $ ls
  photo1.jpg photo2.jpg photo3.jpg
  $ findface-mass-enroll prepare --meta-const='Phillip J. Fry' '*.jpg'

  Enrolling all JPEGs and PNGs from a subdirectory with meta from accompanying TXT files:

  $ ls subdir
  photo1.jpg photo1.txt photo2.png photo2.txt photo3.jpeg photo3.txt
  $ findface-mass-enroll prepare --meta-companion='txt' 'subdir/*.jpg' 'subdir/*.png' 'subdir/*.jpeg'

  Enrolling JPEGs from all subdirectories with meta from CSV file:

  $ cat meta.csv
  "Phillip J. Fry","dir1/photo1.jpg"
  "Phillip J. Fry","dir1/photo2.jpg"
  "Phillip J. Fry","dir1/photo3.jpg"
  "Turanga Leela","dir2/photo1.jpg"
  "Turanga Leela","dir2/photo2.jpg"
  "Turanga Leela","dir2/photo3.jpg"
  $ ls -R
  .:
  meta.csv

  ./dir1:
  photo1.jpg photo2.jpg photo3.jpg

  ./dir2:
  photo1.jpg photo2.jpg photo3.jpg
  $ findface-mass-enroll prepare --meta-csv=meta.csv '**/*.jpg' '**/*.jpeg'

Options:
  --meta-const TEXT      Shared metadata string
  --meta-companion TEXT  Extension of metadata files accompanying the images
                         (e.g. txt)
  --meta-csv PATH        Name of the CSV file containing metadata
  --meta-filename        Use file name (without extension) as metadata string
  --split INTEGER        Split job file into N parts (default: don't split)
  --help                 Show this message and exit.

## $ findface-mass-enroll print --help
Usage: findface-mass-enroll print [OPTIONS]

  Print contents of job file as JSON

Options:
  --failed  Show only failed images
  --help    Show this message and exit.

## $ findface-mass-enroll run --help
Usage: findface-mass-enroll run [OPTIONS]

  Run upload job

Options:
  --parallel INTEGER              Number of enroll threads (default: 10)
  --api TEXT                      API url (default: http://127.0.0.1:8000/)
                                  [required]
  --token TEXT                    API token  [required]
  --gallery TEXT                  Enroll faces into specified gallery
                                  (default: default)
  --failed                        Include failed images
  --mf-selector [all|biggest|reject]
                                  mf_selector (biggest,all,reject)
  --gender                        Extract gender
  --age                           Extract age
  --emotions                      Extract emotions
  --stats-interval INTEGER        Output stats after every STATS_INTERVAL
                                  seconds (default: 1)
  --help                          Show this message and exit.

To harness the feature, do the following:

  1. Prepare a job file containing the list of images with metadata (prepare). If all images share the same metastring, you can specify it right in the command line when preparing the job file (--meta-const). If each image has a unique metastring, map metastrings to images in a CSV file (--meta-csv).

    Примечание

    The CSV file used as a metadata source should have the following format: metastring | image. If some images are not listed in the CSV file, their metastrings will be empty.

    Совет

    To write the list of images to a CSV file, you can use the command below. Each image in the list will be associated with a metastring coinciding with the image full path (in the format metastring | image).

    find /home/user/sample | grep -E 'jpg|png' |awk '{print $0","$0}' > list.csv
    
  2. If necessary, display the job file content (print).

  3. Enroll faces to findface-facenapi for further processing (run).

    Примечание

    Should an error occur during the job file processing, correct the mistake and try again with the option –failed (see examples below).

Example

Enroll faces from all .jpg files in a /home/user/images/ directory with a shared metastring Phillip J. Fry:

To display the list of images in a directory, execute:

ls /home/user/images/
photo1.jpg photo2.jpg photo3.jpg ...

Prepare a job file:

findface-mass-enroll prepare --meta-const='Phillip J. Fry' '/home/user/images/*'

Looking for images matching '*.jpg'
2055 files prepared for upload
2055 files in job file samplejob

Run the job file:

findface-mass-enroll run --token 'RczGgVEMizR1njHHQegNH_g9mwGl6-A1' --api http://127.0.0.1:8000/ --gender --age --emotions --mf-selector=all

[33/2055] faces processed (4 succeeded, 9 failed, 10 skipped). 2.14 rps. [00:00:17/00:16:04]

---------------------------------------- Summary -------------------------------------------

Found 2055 images in job file
Skipped 0 already processed images
Successfully processed 2000 images
Failed to process 55 images

Should an error occur during the job file processing, correct the mistake and try again with the option --failed:

findface-mass-enroll run --token 'RczGgVEMizR1njHHQegNH_g9mwGl6-A1' --api http://127.0.0.1:8000/ --gender --age --emotions --mf-selector=all --failed