Insightface face detection and recognition model that just works out of the box.

This is a minimalistic inference-focused repack of Insightface.

For examples please refer to InsightfaceExample.ipynb.

What it does

Provides you whith a one-liner to set up SoTA face detection and recognition model for inference.

Supported features

• extract face embedding for a single-face image.
• use any model from Insightface ModelZoo

Fixes and improvements over orignal version

• Everything that is not required for inference is removed
• Model instantiation is a single-line call
• Original version crashed with unintelligible segmentation fault if output of the face detector was wrong or empty. This version throws exception or returns None.
• Jupyter Notebook example

TODO:

Simplify and refactor original code parts for readability and simplicity.