Make the API /verify work with image URL

Dockerfile

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # base image
 FROM python:3.8.12
-LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source https://github.com/serengil/deepface
+LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source=https://github.com/serengil/deepface
 
 # -----------------------------------
 # create required folder
@@ -24,15 +24,11 @@ RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
     && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 # -----------------------------------
-# Copy required files from repo into image
-COPY ./deepface /app/deepface
+
 # even though we will use local requirements, this one is required to perform install deepface from source code
 COPY ./requirements.txt /app/requirements.txt
 COPY ./requirements_local /app/requirements_local.txt
 COPY ./package_info.json /app/
-COPY ./setup.py /app/
-COPY ./README.md /app/
-COPY ./entrypoint.sh /app/deepface/api/src/entrypoint.sh
 
 # -----------------------------------
 # if you plan to use a GPU, you should install the 'tensorflow-gpu' package
@@ -46,6 +42,14 @@ COPY ./entrypoint.sh /app/deepface/api/src/entrypoint.sh
 # -----------------------------------
 # install dependencies - deepface with these dependency versions is working
 RUN pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host pypi.python.org --trusted-host=files.pythonhosted.org -r /app/requirements_local.txt
+
+# Copy required files from repo into image
+COPY ./deepface /app/deepface
+
+COPY ./setup.py /app/
+COPY ./README.md /app/
+COPY ./entrypoint.sh /app/deepface/api/src/entrypoint.sh
+
 # install deepface from source code (always up-to-date)
 RUN pip install --trusted-host pypi.org --trusted-host pypi.python.org --trusted-host=files.pythonhosted.org -e .
 

deepface/DeepFace.py

@@ -623,5 +623,7 @@ def detectFace(
     extracted_face = None
     if len(face_objs) > 0:
         extracted_face = face_objs[0]["face"]
-        extracted_face = preprocessing.resize_image(img=extracted_face, target_size=target_size)
+        extracted_face = preprocessing.resize_image(
+            img=extracted_face, target_size=target_size
+        )
     return extracted_face

deepface/api/src/app.py

@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@ def create_app():
     app.register_blueprint(blueprint)
     logger.info(f"Welcome to DeepFace API v{DeepFace.__version__}!")
     return app
+
+
+app = create_app()

entrypoint.sh

@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 echo "Starting the application..."
 exec "$@"
 
-gunicorn -w 1 -b 0.0.0.0:5000 --timeout 7200 --log-level 'debug' --access-logfile - --access-logformat '%(h)s - - [%(t)s] "%(r)s" %(s)s %(b)s %(L)s' app:create_app
+gunicorn -w 1 -b 0.0.0.0:5000 --timeout 7200 --log-level 'debug' --access-logfile - --access-logformat '%(h)s - - [%(t)s] "%(r)s" %(s)s %(b)s %(L)s' app:app