The First Time I Built Something That Could See
The final project in this arc is the most science-fiction sounding thing I have built, a desktop application that watches two cameras,…
Face Recognition App
This is a project series. The posts below are in order, starting from Part 1.
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
The reason a solo self-taught builder can make a working face recognition system in this decade is one open source library, named…
How Face Recognition Actually Works, in Plain Words
Recognition sounds like magic until you see the mechanism, and the mechanism is beautifully plain, every face becomes a list of 128…
Running Two Cameras at Once Without Freezing
The requirement said two cameras, entry and exit, live at once, and a naive loop reading one camera then the other then…
Handling Strangers, and the Honest Limits of Recognition
A recognition system is defined less by its matches than by its edges, what it does with a face it does not…
Turning Recognitions Into a Searchable Record
The cameras watch and the recogniser names, but the system’s actual product is memory, who passed, when, which door, with the image…
What Building Something That Could See Taught Me
The face recognition app closes this blog’s current arc at the edge of what I could build, a system with eyes, judgment,…