Understanding Face Recognition

Understand how modern technology works with faces, from scratch. You don't need to be an AI expert. If you know how to program, you will be able to apply state-of-the-art methods yourself, locally on your device and for free. This is an interactive tutorial – you can bring your own pictures if you like to.

Get Started

Try this on your device

To get started immediately, just start the interactive tutorial on this website. Alternatively, you can choose to run this exact experience independently on your own device.

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Advanced: Using Docker

You can also use Docker to run this app locally:


                            docker run -p 8080:80 ghcr.io/georg-jung/explain-face-rec:latest

As soon as your container is running, you can access this tutorial at localhost:8080.

Open Source

This interactive tutorial is completely free and open source. You're welcome to contribute, check it out, or star it on GitHub.

Application Demos

Besides the main tutorial above, you can also try the following simple application examples:

Note that the interactive tutorial also contains many other live demos. Give them a try.