.. _example_applications_plot_face_recognition.py:


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Faces recognition example using eigenfaces and SVMs
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The dataset used in this example is a preprocessed excerpt of the
"Labeled Faces in the Wild", aka LFW_:

  http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/lfw-funneled.tgz (233MB)

.. _LFW: http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/

Expected results for the top 5 most represented people in the dataset::

                     precision    recall  f1-score   support

  Gerhard_Schroeder       0.91      0.75      0.82        28
    Donald_Rumsfeld       0.84      0.82      0.83        33
         Tony_Blair       0.65      0.82      0.73        34
       Colin_Powell       0.78      0.88      0.83        58
      George_W_Bush       0.93      0.86      0.90       129

        avg / total       0.86      0.84      0.85       282



.. image:: images/plot_face_recognition.png
    :align: center

**Python source code:** :download:`plot_face_recognition.py <plot_face_recognition.py>`

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