Production-grade dlib face_recognition toolkit: piecewise confidence formula, enrollment quality diagnostics, and producer-side persistence for flicker suppression.
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"""
Face enrollment helpers: validate captures, compute centroids, pickle.
Hard rules encoded:
- Blur threshold = 40 (Laplacian variance). NOT 80 — pale skin scores 40-80 sharp.
- Face coverage >= 60% of frame height.
- Intra-class distance mean 0.25-0.40. <0.20 = overfit, >0.45 = loose.
- Pre-pickle to enrolled.pkl. Never re-enroll from JPEG in a hot path.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import pickle
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Mapping
import cv2
import numpy as np
MIN_FACE_H_RATIO = 0.40 # face must be >= 40% of frame height
MIN_LAPLACIAN_VAR = 40 # pale skin = low variance; 80 causes false rejects
INTRA_CLASS_MEAN_MIN = 0.20
INTRA_CLASS_MEAN_MAX = 0.45
INTRA_CLASS_MAX_DIST = 0.55
def validate_capture(frame: np.ndarray) -> tuple[bool, str]:
"""Validate a single enrollment capture. Returns (ok, reason)."""
import face_recognition
h, w = frame.shape[:2]
rgb = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
locs = face_recognition.face_locations(rgb)
if not locs:
return False, "no face detected"
top, right, bot, left = locs[0]
face_h = bot - top
coverage = face_h / h
if coverage < MIN_FACE_H_RATIO:
return False, f"face too small ({coverage:.0%}, need >= {MIN_FACE_H_RATIO:.0%})"
gray = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
crop = gray[top:bot, left:right]
blur = cv2.Laplacian(crop, cv2.CV_64F).var()
if blur < MIN_LAPLACIAN_VAR:
return False, f"too blurry (Laplacian={blur:.0f}, need >= {MIN_LAPLACIAN_VAR})"
return True, f"OK coverage={coverage:.0%} blur={blur:.0f}"
def compute_enrollment(
faces_dir: str | Path,
) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
"""Compute mean 128-d encoding per person from faces/{name}/*.jpg."""
import face_recognition
from pathlib import Path
enrolled = {}
for person_dir in sorted(Path(faces_dir).iterdir()):
if not person_dir.is_dir():
continue
vecs = []
for img_path in sorted(person_dir.glob("*.jpg")):
img = face_recognition.load_image_file(str(img_path))
encs = face_recognition.face_encodings(img)
if encs:
vecs.append(encs[0])
if vecs:
enrolled[person_dir.name] = np.mean(np.stack(vecs), axis=0)
return enrolled
def validate_enrollment(enrolled: Mapping[str, np.ndarray]) -> dict:
"""Check intra-class distances. Returns diagnostic dict."""
results = {}
for name, vec in enrolled.items():
results[name] = {"norm": float(np.linalg.norm(vec))}
if len(enrolled) >= 2:
names = list(enrolled.keys())
vecs = np.stack([enrolled[n] for n in names])
dists = [
float(np.linalg.norm(vecs[i] - vecs[j]))
for i in range(len(vecs))
for j in range(i + 1, len(vecs))
]
results["_pairwise"] = {
"min": min(dists),
"max": max(dists),
"mean": float(np.mean(dists)),
}
return results
def save_enrollment(enrolled: dict[str, np.ndarray], path: str | Path) -> None:
"""Pickle the enrollment dict."""
with open(path, "wb") as f:
pickle.dump(enrolled, f)
def load_enrollment(path: str | Path) -> dict[str, np.ndarray]:
"""Load a pre-pickled enrollment dict."""
with open(path, "rb") as f:
return pickle.load(f)
if __name__ == "__main__":
import sys
faces_dir = sys.argv[1] if len(sys.argv) > 1 else "faces"
out_path = sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else f"{faces_dir}/enrolled.pkl"
enrolled = compute_enrollment(faces_dir)
diag = validate_enrollment(enrolled)
for name, info in diag.items():
print(f" {name}: {info}")
save_enrollment(enrolled, out_path)
print(f"Saved → {out_path}")