Installation
Prerequisites
The Face SDK Web Service includes four main features:
- Detection
- Comparison 1:1 (aka Match)
- Liveness Assessment
- Identification 1:N (aka Search)
To use Detection and Comparison, you do not need any additional components.
For Liveness Assessment and Identification, you should install and configure the following components:
| Milvus | Storage | Database | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liveness Assessment | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Identification (aka Search) |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
For more information about the additional components and why they are required, see the Product Architecture page.
Refer to the performance and scaling recommendations here: Face SDK Performance Guide.
Installation Types and Features
Depending on the required functionality, you should choose one of the following installation types:
- Basic
- Advanced: Liveness
- Advanced: Identification
- Advanced: Full Functionality
Each installation type supports a certain set of features:
| Detection | Comparison (aka Match) |
Identification (aka Search) |
Liveness Assessment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | ✅ | ✅ | ||
| Advanced: Liveness |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Advanced: Identification |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Advanced: Full |
✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Warning
For using the Liveness feature, you need to provide secure communication over the Internet and use only HTTPS. Thus, for the Advanced: Liveness and Advanced: Full Functionality types make sure to enable SSL, see the Configuration page for details.
Installation Guides
Here are the installation guides for different configurations.
Note that Windows supports only the Basic and Advanced: Liveness installation types.
| Platforms | Basic | Advanced: Liveness |
Advanced: Identification |
Advanced: Full |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Containers | open guide | open Helm guide open Docker guide |
open Helm guide open Docker guide |
open guide |
| Windows | open guide | open guide | ❌ | ❌ |
| Linux | open guide | open guide | ❌ | ❌ |
Processing Versions Types
- CPU
- GPU