How to install Openface in windows python

Question

I am a newbie to Openface. Due to some reasons I want to install Openface in windows with python. It would be great if anyone could guide me through that. I have searched online, but not a single article talks about windows python installation. May be I am asking a very simple question but please help me through this.

Answer 1

I'm not aware of OpenFace being used on Windows directly, but please contribute any changes necessary to the repository if you start working on this. I expect there to be a few compatibility issues with Linux-only features.

A workaround solution is to the prebuilt OpenFace Docker container on Windows with a Docker machine. Some of this is from the OpenFace setup guide. First start a Linux Docker machine on Windows. Then pull the OpenFace docker container from here:

docker pull bamos/openface
docker run -p 9000:9000 -p 8000:8000 -t -i bamos/openface /bin/bash
cd /root/openface
./demos/compare.py images/examples/{lennon*,clapton*}
./demos/classifier.py infer models/openface/celeb-classifier.nn4.small2.v1.pkl ./images/examples/carell.jpg
./demos/web/start-servers.sh

Answer 2

Steps to install openface in windows which worked for me.

1. Download openface from this path- http://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/
2. Paste the folder openface into the path where python.exe file exist.
3. Run the commnd python openface/setup.py install

Answer 3

If you are using anaconda, then the following steps worked for me. The credit for the steps goes to nitish11 who posted them in github: https://gist.github.com/ageitgey/82d0ea0fdb56dc93cb9b716e7ceb364b

1. Open the command line from within anaconda.
2. If required, install git (conda install -c anaconda git)
3. git clone https://github.com/cmusatyalab/openface.git
4. cd openface
5. pip install -r requirements.txt
6. (sudo) python setup.py install

sudo may not be required in step 6.

Hope this helps.