after any large event there is a shared drive with two thousand photographs in it, and finding the eleven you appear in means scrolling all two thousand.
one scan returns only yours. the recognition is the easy part now; the useful part is framing it around a person rather than an album.
built after a wedding, for the obvious reason.
what it is built from
expo on the phone, fastapi behind it, insightface for the recognition, postgres for the records and s3 for the photographs. the face model takes thirty to sixty seconds to load when the backend starts.
