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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
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Windows open guide open guide
Linux open guide open guide

Processing Versions Types

  • CPU
  • GPU