Validate faces using cosine distance and SVC

frigate/embeddings/maintainer.py

@@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ class EmbeddingMaintainer(threading.Thread):
         self.requires_face_detection = "face" not in self.config.objects.all_objects
         self.detected_faces: dict[str, float] = {}
         self.face_classifier = (
-            FaceClassificationModel(db) if self.face_recognition_enabled else None
+            FaceClassificationModel(self.config.face_recognition, db)
+            if self.face_recognition_enabled
+            else None
         )
 
         # create communication for updating event descriptions
@@ -201,7 +203,9 @@ class EmbeddingMaintainer(threading.Thread):
 
         # Create our own thumbnail based on the bounding box and the frame time
         try:
-            yuv_frame = self.frame_manager.get(frame_name, camera_config.frame_shape_yuv)
+            yuv_frame = self.frame_manager.get(
+                frame_name, camera_config.frame_shape_yuv
+            )
         except FileNotFoundError:
             pass
 
@@ -467,11 +471,9 @@ class EmbeddingMaintainer(threading.Thread):
             f"Detected best face for person as: {sub_label} with score {score}"
         )
 
-        if score < self.config.face_recognition.threshold or (
+        if id in self.detected_faces and score <= self.detected_faces[id]:
-            id in self.detected_faces and score <= self.detected_faces[id]
-        ):
             logger.debug(
-                f"Recognized face score {score} is less than threshold ({self.config.face_recognition.threshold}) / previous face score ({self.detected_faces.get(id)})."
+                f"Recognized face score {score} is less than previous face score ({self.detected_faces.get(id)})."
             )
             return
 

frigate/util/model.py

@@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ from playhouse.sqliteq import SqliteQueueDatabase
 from sklearn.preprocessing import LabelEncoder, Normalizer
 from sklearn.svm import SVC
 
-from frigate.util.builtin import deserialize
+from frigate.config.semantic_search import FaceRecognitionConfig
+from frigate.util.builtin import deserialize, serialize
 
 try:
     import openvino as ov
@@ -21,6 +22,9 @@ except ImportError:
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
+MIN_MATCHING_FACES = 2
+
+
 def get_ort_providers(
     force_cpu: bool = False, device: str = "AUTO", requires_fp16: bool = False
 ) -> tuple[list[str], list[dict[str, any]]]:
@@ -157,10 +161,19 @@ class ONNXModelRunner:
 
 
 class FaceClassificationModel:
-    def __init__(self, db: SqliteQueueDatabase):
+    def __init__(self, config: FaceRecognitionConfig, db: SqliteQueueDatabase):
+        self.config = config
         self.db = db
         self.labeler: Optional[LabelEncoder] = None
         self.classifier: Optional[SVC] = None
+        self.embedding_query = f"""
+            SELECT
+                id,
+                distance
+            FROM vec_faces
+            WHERE face_embedding MATCH ?
+                AND k = {MIN_MATCHING_FACES} ORDER BY distance
+        """
 
     def __build_classifier(self) -> None:
         faces: list[tuple[str, bytes]] = self.db.execute_sql(
@@ -170,7 +183,9 @@ class FaceClassificationModel:
         self.labeler = LabelEncoder()
         norms = Normalizer(norm="l2").transform(embeddings)
         labels = self.labeler.fit_transform([f[0].split("-")[0] for f in faces])
-        self.classifier = SVC(kernel="linear", probability=True)
+        self.classifier = SVC(
+            kernel="linear", probability=True, decision_function_shape="ovo"
+        )
         self.classifier.fit(norms, labels)
 
     def clear_classifier(self) -> None:
@@ -178,17 +193,50 @@ class FaceClassificationModel:
         self.labeler = None
 
     def classify_face(self, embedding: np.ndarray) -> Optional[tuple[str, float]]:
+        best_faces = self.db.execute_sql(
+            self.embedding_query, [serialize(embedding)]
+        ).fetchall()
+        logger.debug(f"Face embedding match: {best_faces}")
+
+        if not best_faces or len(best_faces) < MIN_MATCHING_FACES:
+            logger.debug(
+                f"{len(best_faces)} < {MIN_MATCHING_FACES} min required faces."
+            )
+            return None
+
+        sub_label = str(best_faces[0][0]).split("-")[0]
+        avg_score = 0
+
+        # check that the cosine similarity is close enough to match the face
+        for face in best_faces:
+            score = 1.0 - face[1]
+
+            if face[0].split("-")[0] != sub_label:
+                logger.debug("Detected multiple faces, result is not valid.")
+                return None
+
+            avg_score += score
+
+        avg_score = round(avg_score / MIN_MATCHING_FACES, 2)
+
+        if avg_score < self.config.threshold:
+            logger.debug(
+                f"Recognized face score {avg_score} is less than threshold ({self.config.threshold}))."
+            )
+            return None
+
         if not self.classifier:
             self.__build_classifier()
 
-        res = self.classifier.predict([embedding])
+        cosine_index = self.labeler.transform([sub_label])[0]
+        probabilities: list[float] = self.classifier.predict_proba([embedding])[0]
+        svc_probability = max(probabilities)
+        logger.debug(f"SVC face classification probability: {svc_probability} and index match: {cosine_index} / {probabilities.index(svc_probability)}")
 
-        if res is None:
+        if cosine_index == probabilities.index(svc_probability):
-            return None
-
-        label = res[0]
-        probabilities = self.classifier.predict_proba([embedding])[0]
             return (
-            self.labeler.inverse_transform([label])[0],
+                sub_label,
-            round(probabilities[label], 2),
+                min(avg_score, svc_probability),
             )
+
+        return None