​​Journocoders September 2024

​​Facial recognition using AI with Python

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  • ​​Somewhat related, and before gen-AI tech was widely available, I did some work a few years back about calculating “average faces” using a similar process via OpenCV and pre-calculated face-analysis models as in tonight's tutorial:
  • ​​Sorry for not being there tonight! :)
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​​Tutorial

​​The code is a little more complex than usual, but the explanations in the tutorial are pretty good — I recommend you flip back and forth between the code and text to get a good understanding of what the code is doing and how you might be able to adapt it for your own projects.
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​​Next time

​​The next meetup will be on Thursday 17th October at the News Building.
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​​What should we cover? Anything we should or shouldn’t be doing? We want your ideas!
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​​Tonight’s playlist.
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