deepface/.codeboarding/DeepFace_API_Entry_Points.md

graph LR
    DeepFace_API_Entry_Points["DeepFace API & Entry Points"]
    Core_API_Component["Core API Component"]
    Model_Management_Component["Model Management Component"]
    Face_Detection_Component["Face Detection Component"]
    Facial_Representation_Component["Facial Representation Component"]
    Demography_Analysis_Component["Demography Analysis Component"]
    Image_Utilities_Component["Image Utilities Component"]
    Logging_Component["Logging Component"]
    DeepFace_API_Entry_Points -- "calls" --> Core_API_Component
    DeepFace_API_Entry_Points -- "calls" --> Model_Management_Component
    Core_API_Component -- "calls" --> Face_Detection_Component
    Core_API_Component -- "calls" --> Facial_Representation_Component
    Core_API_Component -- "calls" --> Demography_Analysis_Component
    Core_API_Component -- "calls" --> Model_Management_Component
    Core_API_Component -- "calls" --> Image_Utilities_Component
    Face_Detection_Component -- "calls" --> Image_Utilities_Component
    Facial_Representation_Component -- "calls" --> Image_Utilities_Component
    Demography_Analysis_Component -- "calls" --> Image_Utilities_Component
    DeepFace_API_Entry_Points -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    Core_API_Component -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    Model_Management_Component -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    Face_Detection_Component -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    Facial_Representation_Component -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    Demography_Analysis_Component -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    Image_Utilities_Component -- "calls" --> Logging_Component
    click DeepFace_API_Entry_Points href "https://github.com/CodeBoarding/deepface/blob/master/.codeboarding/DeepFace_API_Entry_Points.md" "Details"

Details

Abstract Components Overview: This section provides a detailed overview of the core components within the DeepFace library, focusing on their structure, purpose, and interactions. These components are fundamental to the library's functionality, enabling various facial analysis tasks from detection to recognition and demographic analysis.

DeepFace API & Entry Points [Expand]

This component serves as the primary interface for users to interact with the DeepFace library. It encompasses both the direct Python API (deepface.DeepFace) for programmatic access and the web API (deepface.api.src.app, deepface.api.src.modules.core.routes, deepface.api.src.modules.core.service) for web-based requests. It handles initial user requests and delegates them for core processing.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.DeepFace (1:1)
• deepface.api.src.app (1:1)
• deepface.api.src.modules.core.routes (1:1)
• deepface.api.src.modules.core.service (1:1)

Core API Component

This component orchestrates the main DeepFace functionalities, acting as a central hub that coordinates calls to other specialized components like face detection, facial representation, and demography analysis. It encapsulates the core logic for various DeepFace operations (e.g., verify, analyze, find).

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.DeepFace (1:1)
• deepface.commons.functions (1:1)

Model Management Component

Responsible for loading, caching, and managing the various deep learning models used by DeepFace for tasks like face detection, facial recognition, and demography analysis. It ensures models are efficiently loaded and available when needed, handling model-specific configurations and weights.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.DeepFace (1:1)
• deepface.commons.functions (1:1)
• deepface.basemodels (1:1)

Face Detection Component

This component is dedicated to detecting faces within images. It provides an abstraction over various face detection algorithms (e.g., OpenCV, SSD, RetinaFace, MTCNN, MediaPipe, YuNet, YOLO, Dlib, CenterFace) and returns detected face regions. The getClassHierarchy output shows various *Client classes inheriting from deepface.models.Detector.Detector.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.models.Detector (9:27)
• deepface.models.face_detection (1:1)

Facial Representation Component

This component is responsible for generating numerical representations (embeddings) of faces using various facial recognition models (e.g., ArcFace, FaceNet, DeepFace, VGG-Face, OpenFace, DeepID, Dlib, SFace, GhostFaceNet, Buffalo_L). These embeddings are crucial for tasks like verification and recognition. The getClassHierarchy output shows various *Client classes inheriting from deepface.models.FacialRecognition.FacialRecognition.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.models.FacialRecognition (15:47)
• deepface.models.facial_recognition (1:1)

Demography Analysis Component

This component analyzes detected faces to predict demographic attributes such as age, emotion, gender, and race. It utilizes specialized models for each of these tasks. The getClassHierarchy output shows various *Client classes inheriting from deepface.models.Demography.Demography.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.models.Demography (15:67)
• deepface.models.demography (1:1)

Image Utilities Component

Provides common image processing functionalities such as pre-processing, alignment, resizing, and normalization, which are essential for preparing images for face detection and analysis models.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.commons.functions (1:1)

Logging Component

Manages the logging of events, errors, and debugging information throughout the DeepFace library, aiding in monitoring and troubleshooting.

Related Classes/Methods:

• deepface.commons.logger (1:1)

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