The SCARFACE Challenge
SCARFACE must analyze 20+ simultaneous video streams in real-time:
All with 99%+ accuracy.
Computer Vision Pipeline
1. Face Detection (MTCNN)
We use MTCNN (Multi-task Cascaded Convolutional Networks) for detection:
import cv2
from mtcnn import MTCNN
detector = MTCNN()
def detect_faces(frame):
# RGB conversion
rgb_frame = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
# Detection
faces = detector.detect_faces(rgb_frame)
return facesOptimization: Detection only every 5 frames, tracking between detections.
2. Facial Recognition (FaceNet)
Once the face is detected, we generate a 128D embedding with FaceNet:
from tensorflow.keras.models import load_model
import numpy as np
facenet_model = load_model('facenet_keras.h5')
def get_face_embedding(face_image):
# Resize 160x160 (required by FaceNet)
face_pixels = cv2.resize(face_image, (160, 160))
# Normalization
face_pixels = face_pixels.astype('float32')
mean, std = face_pixels.mean(), face_pixels.std()
face_pixels = (face_pixels - mean) / std
# Expand for batch
samples = np.expand_dims(face_pixels, axis=0)
# Embedding
embedding = facenet_model.predict(samples)[0]
return embedding3. Database Matching
from scipy.spatial.distance import cosine
def find_match(embedding, database_embeddings, threshold=0.6):
min_distance = float('inf')
matched_person = None
for person_id, db_embedding in database_embeddings.items():
distance = cosine(embedding, db_embedding)
if distance < min_distance:
min_distance = distance
matched_person = person_id
if min_distance < threshold:
return matched_person, 1 - min_distance # Confidence
return None, 0Document OCR
For ID card analysis, we use Tesseract OCR combined with a custom model:
import pytesseract
from PIL import Image
def extract_id_info(id_card_image):
# Preprocessing
gray = cv2.cvtColor(id_card_image, cv2.COLOR_BGR2GRAY)
denoised = cv2.fastNlMeansDenoising(gray)
# OCR
text = pytesseract.image_to_string(denoised, lang='eng')
# Structured extraction with regex
patterns = {
'number': r'No\s*([A-Z0-9]+)',
'name': r'Name\s*:\s*([A-Z\s]+)',
'surname': r'Surname\s*:\s*([A-Z\s]+)',
'birth_date': r'(\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4})'
}
extracted = {}
for key, pattern in patterns.items():
match = re.search(pattern, text)
if match:
extracted[key] = match.group(1)
return extractedGPU Optimizations
TensorFlow GPU with CUDA
import tensorflow as tf
# GPU configuration
gpus = tf.config.list_physical_devices('GPU')
if gpus:
tf.config.experimental.set_memory_growth(gpus[0], True)
# Mixed precision for x2 performance
policy = tf.keras.mixed_precision.Policy('mixed_float16')
tf.keras.mixed_precision.set_global_policy(policy)Batch Processing
Instead of processing each face individually, we batch:
def process_batch(faces, batch_size=32):
embeddings = []
for i in range(0, len(faces), batch_size):
batch = faces[i:i+batch_size]
batch_embeddings = facenet_model.predict(np.array(batch))
embeddings.extend(batch_embeddings)
return embeddingsSystem Architecture
Backend: Spring Boot with gRPC for high-performance communication
GPU Servers: NVIDIA RTX 3090 (24GB VRAM)
Database: PostgreSQL for metadata, Redis for embeddings cache
Queue: RabbitMQ for asynchronous processing
Production Results
Conclusion
Production Computer Vision requires a combination of performant pre-trained models, aggressive GPU optimizations and robust system architecture.
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