Video Face Detection on server side using Flask

Description

This piece of code aims to create a service that reads from a remote camera, performs face recognition processing and provides its results.

Important

This code is created only for experimental purposes.

Credits

This is a modified (joining) version of Video Streaming with Flask Example and the open cv face recognition

Usage

  1. Install Python dependencies: cv2, flask.
  2. Run "python main.py" followed by your image address. Example:
  python main.py http://96.10.1.168/mjpg/1/video.mjpg
  1. On your browser, navigate to the address given in the console.