FaceAPI

Branch Point

Forked from face-api.js version 0.22.2 released on March 22nd, 2020
https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js
https://www.npmjs.com/package/face-api.js

Note

I don't plan to maintain a separate distribution of face-api.js, this is only a temporary repository to use latest available face-api with latest available tensorflow/js as original face-api.js is not compatible with tfjs 2.0+.
If original repository is updated, this one will become obsolete.

Differences

• Removed tests, docs, examples

• Updated all package dependencies

• Removed unnecesary package dependencies (karma, jasmine, etc.)

• Updated Typescript build process to target ES2020 instead of dual ES5/ES6

• Modified to make compatible with TensorFlow/JS 2.0+

• Trivial code changes for updated Typescript type checking

• Changed browser bundle process to use ESBuild instead of Rollup

• Updated tfjs dependencies since backends were removed from tfjs-core

• Removed following models as they are either obsolete or non-functional with tfjs 2.0+

  • ssdMobilenetv1: Relies on batchNorm() function which is made obsolete in tfjs 2.0
  • mtcnn: Mostly obsolete
  • tinyYolov2: Non-functional since weights are missing

Which means the only valid model is tinyFaceDetector

However, due to reduced code and changed build process, resulting bundle is about 2.5x smaller than the original!

Build

Both ./build and ./dist folders are included by default, so no need for build during install. However, if you want to rebuild use:

npm run build

Which will compile everything in ./src into ./build and create standard and minified bundles and sourcemap in ./dist

Documentation

For documentation refer to original project