Introduction
The Face Access Control application is one of a series of IoT reference implementations aimed at instructing users on how to develop a working solution for a particular problem. The solution uses facial recognition as the basis of a control system for granting physical access. The application detects and registers the image of a person’s face into a database, recognizes known users entering a designated area and grants access if a person’s face matches an image in the database.
From this reference implementation, developers will learn to build and run an application that:
- Detects and registers the image of a person’s face into a database
- Recognizes known users entering a designated area
- Grants access if a person’s face matches an image in the database
How it Works
The Face Access Control system consists of two main subsystems:
cvservice
- cvservice is a C++ application that uses OpenVINO™. It connects to a USB camera (for detecting faces) and then performs facial recognition based on a training data file of authorized users to determine if a detected person is a known user or previously unknown. Messages are published to a MQTT* broker when users are recognized and the processed output frames are written to stdout in raw format (to be piped to ffmpeg for compression and streaming). Here, Intel's Photography Vision Library is used for facial detection and recognition.
webservice
- webservice uses the MQTT broker to interact with cvservice. It's an application based on Node.js* for providing visual feedback at the user access station. Users are greeted when recognized as authorized users or given the option to register as a new user. It displays a high-quality, low-latency motion jpeg stream along with the user interface and data analytics.
In the UI, there are three tabs:
- live streaming video
- user registration
- analytics of access history.
This is what the live streaming video tab looks like:
This is what the user registration tab looks like:
This is an example of the analytics tab:
Hardware requirements
- 5th Generation Intel® Core™ processor or newer or Intel® Xeon® v4, or Intel® Xeon® v5 Processors with Intel® Graphics Technology (if enabled by OEM in BIOS and motherboard) [tested on NUC6i7KYK]
- USB Webcam [tested with Logitech* C922x Pro Stream]
Software requirements
- Ubuntu* 16.04
- OpenVINO™ toolkit