7.Data Gathering

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 First of all, I must thank Ramiz Raja for his great work on Face Recognition on photos:

FACE RECOGNITION USING OPENCV AND PYTHON: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE

and also Anirban Kar, that developed a very comprehensive tutorial using video:

FACE RECOGNITION — 3 parts

I really recommend that you take a look at both tutorials.

Saying that, let’s start the first phase of our project. What we will do here, is starting from last step (Face Detecting), we will simply create a dataset, where we will store for each id, a group of photos in gray with the portion that was used for face detecting.

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