Installation

Prerequisites

The Face SDK web service includes four main features:

To use Detection and Comparison, you do not need any additional components.

For Liveness 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, please see the Product Architecture page

Depending on the required functionality, one of the following installation types should be chosen:

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	✅	✅	✅	✅

Here are the installation guides for different configurations.

Windows supports only Basic and Advanced Liveness installation.

Platforms	Basic	Advanced: Liveness	Advanced: Identification	Advanced: Full
Containers	open guide	open guide	open guide	open guide
Windows	open guide	open guide	❌	❌
Linux	open guide	open guide	open guide	open guide