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FaceRecognitionDotNet

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The world's simplest facial recognition api for .NET on Windows, MacOS and Linux

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The world's simplest facial recognition api for .NET on Windows, MacOS and Linux

The world's simplest facial recognition api for .NET
This repository is porting https://github.com/ageitgey/face_recognition by C#.

This package supports cross platform, Windows, Linux and MacOSX!!

Package OS x86 x64 ARM ARM64 Nuget
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FaceRecognitionDotNet for CUDA 11.2 Windows - ✓ - -
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FaceRecognitionDotNet for Intel MKL Windows - ✓ - -
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FaceRecognitionDotNet for ARM Windows - - - -
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:warning: FaceRecognitionDotNet for ARM is not tested yet

Support API

face_recognition API Corresponding API Note
batch_face_locations BatchFaceLocations
compare_faces CompareFaces
face_distance FaceDistance
face_encodings FaceEncodings
face_landmarks FaceLandmarks And support Helen dataset :warning:
face_locations FaceLocations And support to get confidence and use custom face detector
load_image_file LoadImageFile
- CropFaces Crop image with specified locations
- EyeBlinkDetect Detect person is blinking or not
Support Large model and Helen dataset :warning:
- LoadImage From memory data or System.Drawing.Bitmap
- PredictAge Predict human age.
Use Adience Benchmark Of Unfiltered Faces For Gender And Age Classification dataset :warning:
- PredictEmotion Predict emotion for human face.
Use Corrective re-annotation of FER - CK+ - KDEF :warning:
- PredictGender Predict human gender.
Use UTKFace dataset :warning:
- PredictProbabilityAge Predict probability of human age.
Use Adience Benchmark Of Unfiltered Faces For Gender And Age Classification dataset :warning:
- PredictProbabilityEmotion Predict probability of emotion from human face.
Use Corrective re-annotation of FER - CK+ - KDEF :warning:
- PredictProbabilityGender Predict probability of human gender.
Use UTKFace dataset :warning:
- PredictHeadPose Predict human head pose.
Use 300W-LP dataset :warning:
:warning: Warning

You must train dataset by yourself. I will NOT provide pretrained model file due to avoiding license issue. You can check the following examples to train dataset.

  • tools/AgeTraining
  • tools/EmotionTraining
  • tools/EmotionTrainingV2
  • tools/GenderTraining
  • tools/HeadPoseTraining
  • tools/HelenTraining

Demo

Face Recognition

Other Face Functions

Face Landmark Age and Gender Classification Head Pose Estimation Emotion Estimation

Document

FaceRecognitionDotNet support full xml document for Visual Studio. A xml document is written English and Japanese. And you can check online document at FaceRecognitionDotNet API Document

Dependencies Libraries and Products

face_recognition

License: The MIT License

Author: Adam Geitgey

Principal Use: The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line. Main goal of FaceRecognitionDotNet is what ports face_recognition by C#.

face_recognition_models

License: Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal License

Author: Adam Geitgey

Principal Use: Trained models for the face_recognition python library

dlib

License: Boost Software License

Author: Davis E. King

Principal Use: A toolkit for making real world machine learning and data analysis applications in C++.

DlibDotNet

License: The MIT License

Author: Takuya Takeuchi

Principal Use: Use dlib interface via .NET. This library is developed by this owner.

OpenCVSharp

License: The BSD 3-Clause License

Author: shimat

Principal Use: Loading image data by opencv wrapper for example

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PublishedAug 1, 2026
UpdatedSep 17, 2026
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