Welcome to wmp-face’s documentation!¶
wmp-face is a Python module for face detection & recognition built on top of dlib’s facial recognizer.
This codebase was developed under Wesleyan Media Project - a research group that tracks all election-related advertising to give journalists and political scientists the data and the tools to hold governments and special interests accountable. Mostly notably, wmp-face was instrumental in pre-processing the data used for “Do Women Candidates ‘Run as Women’ Online?” (Yao, et al.).
The User Guide¶
This part of the documentation begins with some background information on wmp-face, then focuses on step-by-step instructions to get the most out of wmp-face.