.. _example_applications_face_recognition.py:


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Faces recognition example using eigenfaces and SVMs
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The dataset used in this example is a preprocessed excerpt of the
"Labeled Faces in the Wild", aka LFW_:

  http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/lfw-funneled.tgz (233MB)

.. _LFW: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/

Expected results for the top 5 most represented people in the dataset:

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                   precision    recall  f1-score   support
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     Ariel Sharon       0.67      0.92      0.77        13
     Colin Powell       0.75      0.78      0.76        60
  Donald Rumsfeld       0.78      0.67      0.72        27
    George W Bush       0.86      0.86      0.86       146
Gerhard Schroeder       0.76      0.76      0.76        25
      Hugo Chavez       0.67      0.67      0.67        15
       Tony Blair       0.81      0.69      0.75        36

      avg / total       0.80      0.80      0.80       322
================== ============ ======= ========== =======



**Python source code:** :download:`face_recognition.py <face_recognition.py>`

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