LocallyConnected2D not supported after tf 2.12

- this requirements is just for deepface model. so, instead of enforcing lower tf versions
we should check the current tf version in deepface model initializaiton.

deepface/basemodels/FbDeepFace.py

@@ -44,6 +44,15 @@ class DeepFaceClient(FacialRecognition):
     """
 
     def __init__(self):
+        major = package_utils.get_tf_major_version()
+        minor = package_utils.get_tf_minor_version()
+        if major == 2 and minor > 12:
+            # Ref: https://github.com/serengil/deepface/pull/1079
+            raise ValueError(
+                "DeepFace model requires LocallyConnected2D but it is no longer supported"
+                f" after tf 2.12 but you have {major}.{minor}. You need to downgrade your tf."
+            )
+
         self.model = load_model()
         self.model_name = "DeepFace"
         self.input_shape = (152, 152)

deepface/commons/package_utils.py

@@ -20,6 +20,15 @@ def get_tf_major_version() -> int:
     return int(tf.__version__.split(".", maxsplit=1)[0])
 
 
+def get_tf_minor_version() -> int:
+    """
+    Find tensorflow's minor version
+    Returns
+        minor_version (int)
+    """
+    return int(tf.__version__.split(".", maxsplit=-1)[1])
+
+
 def find_hash_of_file(file_path: str) -> str:
     """
     Find the hash of given image file with its properties

requirements.txt

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ gdown>=3.10.1
 tqdm>=4.30.0
 Pillow>=5.2.0
 opencv-python>=4.5.5.64
-tensorflow>=1.9.0,<=2.12.0
+tensorflow>=1.9.0
 keras>=2.2.0
 Flask>=1.1.2
 mtcnn>=0.1.0