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What is storeFace component ?​

storeFace component is used to store face-embeddings of person with person name in database file.

  • Description : storeFace() takes an input(through STDIN) as 128 float face embeddings, person name, database file name wrapped in JSON format and returns 1 or 0 for success or failure respectively. Check Input and output parameters for details.
  • Parameters :
    • Input(Via STDIN) : storeFace.stdin() << inputJson << std::endl;
      • An inputJson String with following parameters:
        • Parameter1 : Vector of 128 float embeddings
        • Parameter2 : Person name
        • Parameter3 : Database file name
    • Output(Via STDOUT) : storeFace.stdout() >> outputJson;
      • A outputJson String with following contents
        • 1 (success) or 0 (failure)
        • int responseID
  • Using storeFace component
    • With our getEmbeddings component: To understand how to use storeFace with getEmbeddings component, check this section
    • You can also use storeFace with any other getEmbeddings component but inputJson should be in the mentioned format.

List of storeFace features in shunya stack​

  1. Store face embeddings in database.

Using storeFace​

Requirements to use storeFace​

  1. Shunya OS installed (supported Arm devices) or Shunya OS docker container (X86 based windows/linux devices)
  2. Shunya AI installed in Shunya OS.

Steps to use storeFace​

  1. Read inputJson.
  2. Call API binary
  3. Get output for storing face embeddings in dbfile
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Run the steps given below inside Shunya OS installed (supported Arm devices) or Shunya OS docker container (X86 based windows/linux devices) terminals.

Lets take an example use case: Say we need to

  1. Store face embeddings of particular person in database file.

Steps are

Step 1: Read inputJson​

  1. Start with an ready to use template for aligning faces from image.

    git clone https://gitlab.iotiot.in/shunya/products/shunya-ai-examples.git
    cd shunya-ai-examples/indiv-components

  2. Open the examples in a text editor and modify as per your usecase.

    • For CPP you will find the examples in the folder cpp-examples/face-recognition/storeFace
    • Open the file store_face.cpp
    • Modify the line to set input parameters
    • IMP Note: inputJsonRaw.json file contains the parameter1, parameter2 and parameter3 of input. If you want to see how it looks you can check below.
    /* Reading the json file and convert it into the Json string format */
    std::ifstream ifs { R"(inputJsonRaw.json)" };
    if ( !ifs.is_open() )
    {
        std::cerr << "Could not open file for reading!\n";
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    IStreamWrapper isw { ifs };

    Document doc {};
    doc.ParseStream( isw );

    StringBuffer buffer {};
    Writer<StringBuffer> writer { buffer };
    doc.Accept( writer );

    if ( doc.HasParseError() )
    {
        std::cout << "Error  : " << doc.GetParseError()  << '\n'
                  << "Offset : " << doc.GetErrorOffset() << '\n';
        return EXIT_FAILURE;
    }
    /* Finally we get inputJson string */
    const std::string inputJson { buffer.GetString() };

Step 2. Call API binary​

  1. We will now call API binary by giving embeddings(parameter1), person name(parameter2), database file name(parameter3) as an input through STDIN.
    /*########### Call storeFace Component ###############*/
    subprocess::popen storeFace("/usr/bin/storeFace", {});
    /* Passing inputJson to the API */
    storeFace.stdin() << inputJson << std::endl;
    storeFace.close();
    std::string outputJson;
    /* Getting output in outputJson */
    storeFace.stdout() >> outputJson;
  2. You will get output in outputJson string.

Step 3. Get output for storing face embeddings in dbfile​

  1. Code to print the json output, got from storeFace API.
    /* ---- Parse outputJson  ---- */
    /* ---- Parse outputJson  ---- */
    rapidjson::Document storeFaceJson = readJsonString(outputJson);
    int res1 = storeFaceJson["data"]["success"].GetInt();
    if(res1==1) {
         std::cout<<"\nFace stored successfully !";
    } else {
         std::cout<<"\nError storing the face !";
    }

Run ready to use example.​

  1. Run example by yourself.

    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake ../
    make 
    # before running storeFaceCpp make sure you have inputJsonRaw.json in build directory
    ./storeFaceCpp

  2. Running the codes will print the JSON output on the terminal (to STDOUT).

    For Example:

    • Lets say the input image is

      Oops!, No Image to display.

    • Input JSON is

      {
          "embeddings": [{
                   "value": -0.00516019
               }{
                   "value": -0.00523019
               }
              ],
          "fname": "file.txt",
          "pname": "Sneha"
      }

    • Then the JSON output is 

      {
          "apiVersion": "1.2.0",
          "requestId": 1606318527,
          "data": {
              "success": 1
          }
      }

This part is not updated yet (please do not use below example)​

Understand this component with an example (ready to use code)​

  • This is an example for face-recognition and here we will be using 5 components: detectFaces, alignFace, getEmbeddings, storeFace, findFace

  • Check this ready to use example in c++ and python

  • Download the code

    git clone https://gitlab.iotiot.in/shunya/products/shunya-ai-examples.git
    cd shunya-ai-examples/cpp-examples/face-recognition
    ```shell git clone https://gitlab.iotiot.in/shunya/products/shunya-ai-examples.git cd shunya-ai-examples/python-examples/face-recognition ```

  • In this folder there is a file, find_face.cpp or find_face.py

  • detectFaces Components used 

    subprocess::popen detectFaces("/usr/bin/detectFaces", {});
    ```shell detectFaces = Popen(['/usr/bin/detectFaces'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) ```

  • alignFace component used

    subprocess::popen alignFace("/usr/bin/alignFace", {});
    ```shell alignFace = Popen(['/usr/bin/alignFace'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) ```

  • getEmbeddings component used

    subprocess::popen getEmbeddings("/usr/bin/getEmbeddings", {});
    ```shell getEmbeddings = Popen(['/usr/bin/getEmbeddings'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) ```

  • storeFace component used

    subprocess::popen storeFace("/usr/bin/storeFace", {});
    ```shell storeFace = Popen(['/usr/bin/storeFace'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) ```

  • findFace component used

    subprocess::popen findFace("/usr/bin/findFace", {});
    ```shell findFace = Popen(['/usr/bin/findFace'], stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) ```

  • Run code by yourself

    mkdir build && cd build
    cmake .. && make
    ./findFaceCpp
    ```shell python3 find_face.py ```
    - You will get a name of person

Facing errors with the component?​