09 - Face Detection and Recognition: MediaPipe and Beyond

Complete guide to Face Detection and Recognition: MediaPipe and Beyond: architecture, practical implementation and best practices for developers and technical teams.

What you'll learn

• Face detection vs face recognition pipeline: differences and use cases
• MediaPipe Face Detection: fast, lightweight, cross-platform
• MediaPipe Face Mesh: 468 facial landmarks in real-time
• MTCNN: Multi-task Cascaded CNN for precise detection
• Face alignment: geometric normalization with landmarks

This article is part of the Computer Vision series on federicocalo.dev.

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➡️ 09 - Face Detection and Recognition: MediaPipe and Beyond

https://federicocalo.dev/en/blog/face-detection-recognition-mediapipe-beyond

By Federico Calò — Software Developer & Technical Writer