facebox Tools

These are some little tools for facebox, that can help you to teach or check based on images on your filesystem. Visit https://machinebox.io to get a key and run facebox on your machine.

faceboxteach

faceboxteach is a tool that walks a directory structure teaching each image file.

To install it:

$ go get github.com/machinebox/faceboxtools/faceboxteach

The folder name should be the name of the person, and the filenames will become the id in facebox.

├── George_Harrison
│   ├── george1.jpg
│   ├── george2.jpg
│   └── george3.jpg
├── John_Lennon
│   ├── john1.jpg
│   ├── john2.jpg
│   └── john3.jpg
├── Paul_McCartney
│   ├── paul1.jpg
│   ├── paul2.jpg
│   ├── paul3.jpg
│   ├── paul4.jpg
│   └── paul5.jpg
└── Ringo_Starr
    ├── ringo1.jpg
    ├── ringo2.jpg
    ├── ringo3.jpg
    └── ringo4.jpg

Underscores are translated into spaces for a better experience

To teach each item in the above structure, you would run:

$ faceboxteach -dir=/path/to/directory -images=.jpg -facebox=http://localhost:8080

dir - (string) Directory to process
images - (string) Pattern for files to teach (see filepath.Glob)
facebox - (string) Address of running facebox

faceboxtag

faceboxtag is a tool that walks a directory structure and outputs the people that recognise

To install it:

$ go get github.com/machinebox/faceboxtools/faceboxtag

├── photos
│   ├── whoisthis.jpg
│   ├── unknown.jpg
│   └── ????.jpg

To find out who is on the photos, will be on the output

$ faceboxteach -dir=./photos -images=.jpg -facebox=http://localhost:8080

dir - (string) Directory to process
images - (string) Pattern for files to teach (see filepath.Glob)
facebox - (string) Address of running facebox