/face-recognition

Face Recognition is web application which you can use to recognize multiple faces for specified photo. Application is developed using React, Redux, Node, Express as well as a PostgreSQL database.

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Face Recognition

Face Recognition is web application which you can use to recognize multiple faces for specified photo. Application is developed using React, Redux, Node, Express as well as a PostgreSQL database.

Features

  • Sign up and login (supported validation, JWT and password hashing)
  • Detect multiple faces in submitted photo
  • Keep track for number of submitted photo and number of recognized faces for every user
  • Save and reuse recognized faces from user profile
  • Custom URL shortener for saved recognitions

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How to run

Make sure that Node.js and NPM are installed

Prerequisite

  1. Create face-recognition PostgreSQL database
  2. Initialize tables in database using scripts in server/db/scripts folder
  3. Download nginx to map short URL to original URL
  4. Open yor nginx.config file from nginx/config and add bolded lines 
       server {
        listen       80;
        server_name  localhost;
		location ~* "^/[0-9a-z@]{5,15}$"  {
			rewrite ^/(.*)$ http://localhost:3001/redirect-original-photo/$1 redirect;
		}
   }
  5. Start nginx
  6. Register to Clarafai to obtain API key for face recognition
  7. Add .env file in /server and update configuration 
    PORT=3001
DB_USER=postgresql_user
DB_PASSWORD=postgresql_password
DB_NAME=postgresql_db_name
CLARIFAI_API_KEY=clarafai_api_key_from_step_5
BASE_SHORT_URL=http://localhost/
JWT_SECRET_KEY=jwt_secret_key

Run

  1. Install the dependencies using npm install
  2. Run npm start