Face_recognition: Conda support?

Created on 16 May 2017 · 14Comments · Source: ageitgey/face_recognition

face_recognition version: latest
Python version: 3.6
Operating System: Windows 10 64bits

Description

Hi I am trying to install this on my conda python 3.6 environment.

I managed to install dlib 19.4.0 via using conda-forge channel and I can import it just fine.

However I cannot install face_recognition (using pip) because it will attempt to install dlib again and fail.

I dont think you support installing via conda either right?

What I Did

conda create -n py36 python=3.6

activate py36

conda install -c conda-forge dlib=19.4

pip install face_recognition

here the installation will fail to detect that dlib has already been installed and attempt to re-install it and fail

Source

sluongng

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All 14 comments

You're correct that Conda isn't currently supported. But having Conda support would be really cool - especially on Windows where this library is currently nearly impossible to install!

Unfortunately I don't know much about how Conda works or what would be required to make this work with conda install. If anyone knows, let me know! Otherwise I'll take a look when I have a little free time.

ageitgey on 16 May 2017

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If you use docker (there is an example provided) you can use a windows machine to run it virtually.
I recommend it.

@ageitgey awesome library btw.

fhboswell on 16 May 2017

The docker image, iirc, use 3.5 while I am looking for a 3.6 option.

And you are absolutely correct that libraries has been next to impossible to deal with on window. I am following @ageitgey original tutorial using OpenFace and dlib with plan to move on to this library later. The manual compile process of dlib and Boost has been such a nightmare and Conda helped so much.

Probably gona give the docker thing a try, downloaded VMWare last night too. But its shitty that I have to run things on a virtual environment.

sluongng on 16 May 2017

I had to learn Docker in order to run this library as well. Using Docker was significantly more straight forward than I thought it would be. IMO Docker is far less overhead than using VMWare with the GUI and everything.

I followed this guide. https://docs.docker.com/get-started/.
During step 2 instead of making a new directory and dockerfile just CD into your local clone of this repository.

If you need 3.6 you can just change the Dockerfile it is pretty straight forward.

fhboswell on 16 May 2017

@fhboswell do you mind making a quick markdown for docker installation for this particular library? Just a functional brief GIST maybe and then we could pull request on that and include it to the main readme.md

sluongng on 16 May 2017

Yes I will do that!

fhboswell on 16 May 2017

@fhboswell I would be happy with just a guide showing how stuff in \examples run with docker

EDIT: I have been able to run docker but how should I manage file on an image? I dont wana code using VIM and echo "abc" >> hello.py is rather unwise.

I guess what I am trying to say in this issue thread is that this library is not very accessible. Do you have anything in plan @ageitgey ??

sluongng on 18 May 2017

Almost all the issues people have with installation are with installing dlib. There's only so much I can do since I don't maintain dlib itself. I've provided installation dlib instructions for OSX and Linux and a pre-made virtual machine for other users. But beyond that, I'm not sure what I can do. I don't use Windows myself.

Hopefully the awesome folks who package dlib for anaconda will get that all working and then I can just direct Windows users to install with Anaconda.

ageitgey on 26 May 2017

as mentioned over #89 , conda solved so much problem with installation for me.

I strongly suggest people to use it over normal lib, especially with dlib and opencv getting involved.

I will be closing this issue thread for now but I do hope @ageitgey will consider conda distribution in the future ✌️

sluongng on 27 May 2017

I did as you said, conda-forge's dlib, pip install dlib, pip install face_recognition. I didn't fail. It worked!

I don't know how could pip possibly locate the wheel file:

Collecting dlib                                                                                                       
  Downloading dlib-19.7.0-cp36-cp36m-win_amd64.whl (2.2MB)                                                            
Installing collected packages: dlib                                                                                   
Successfully installed dlib-19.7.0

phizaz on 14 Dec 2017

I am using Windows 10,python 3.5 and pycharm editor. I installed dlib from Anaconda cloud successfully. But when i try to work sample code for face recognition via webcam, i am getting error "No module named face_recognition" . When i try to import dlib, there is no problem. Is there anyone help me?

mhmtozkan on 5 Jan 2019

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I am using Windows 10,python 3.5 and pycharm editor. I installed dlib from Anaconda cloud successfully. But when i try to work sample code for face recognition via webcam, i am getting error "No module named face_recognition" . When i try to import dlib, there is no problem. Is there anyone help me?

you need pip instal face_recognition for conda