- enrich: re-detects each cached face with buffalo_l (detection + landmark_2d_106 + landmark_3d_68, recognition module skipped for speed) and persists landmarks + pose into the cache so per-face frontality and landmark-symmetry quality signals become available. - compute_quality: composite score combining det_score, face short-edge, blur, frontality (from pose pitch/yaw), and 2D-landmark symmetry with tunable weights. Default weighting 0.30/0.20/0.20/0.15/0.15. - export-swap: builds facesets_swap_ready/ from an existing refine manifest. Per identity: tighter outlier gate (default 0.45), visual- near-dupe collapse (keep best representative per group), multi-face- per-source-image collapse (keep best bbox), rank by composite score, single-face-per-PNG crops at 512x512 with 0.5 bbox padding, ready-to- drop .fsz bundles (top-N + full), per-faceset manifest.json, NAME.txt placeholder for the operator. The multi-face-per-PNG collapse is the critical fix: roop-unleashed's .fsz loader appends every detected face in each PNG to the FaceSet, so any multi-face crop would contaminate the averaged embedding. - Optional --candidates rescues raw_full singletons: matches against the final per-faceset centroids and routes to _candidates/to_<faceset>/ for manual review; orphaned singletons that still cluster among themselves land in _candidates/new_<NNN>/. - docs/analysis/: evaluation document captures the evidence, downstream requirements (FaceSet averaging, inswapper_128), opportunity matrix (R1-R14), and the recommended target state this export implements. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
face-sets
Sort photos by similar face using InsightFace embeddings + agglomerative clustering, then refine into faceset-ready folders for downstream face-swap tooling (roop-unleashed, etc.).
Pipeline
sort_faces.py is a single-file CLI with four subcommands:
| step | what it does |
|---|---|
| embed | Recursively scan a source tree, detect + embed every face, write .npz cache |
| cluster | Raw agglomerative clustering of the cache into person_NNN/ / _singletons/ / _noface/ |
| refine | Initial cluster → centroid merge → quality gate → outlier rejection → size filter → faceset_NNN/ |
| dedup | Post-hoc near-duplicate report: byte-identical groups + visual near-dupes (same face + same size within a tight cosine threshold) |
embed is resumable and incremental: it loads any existing cache at the target path and only hashes/embeds files it hasn't processed before. A periodic flush (default every 50 new files) writes the cache atomically, so a mid-run crash loses at most a few dozen embeddings.
Byte-identical duplicates are detected via sha256 during the listing phase. The canonical file is embedded once; other paths with the same hash are carried as aliases on the cache's top-level path_aliases dict. Every alias is materialized by cluster/refine, so each on-disk location ends up represented in the output.
Cache and outputs are kept out of the repo via .gitignore; defaults live under work/.
Typical run
# 1. Embed (CPU; InsightFace buffalo_l). Caches faces + metadata. Resumable.
python sort_faces.py embed /mnt/x/src/nl work/cache/nl_full.npz
# 2. Raw clusters (every multi-face cluster -> a person_NNN/ folder).
python sort_faces.py cluster work/cache/nl_full.npz /mnt/e/temp_things/fcswp/nl_sorted/raw_full
# 3. Refined facesets (filters for faceset-ready quality).
python sort_faces.py refine work/cache/nl_full.npz /mnt/e/temp_things/fcswp/nl_sorted/facesets_full
# 4. (Optional) report on byte-identical + visual near-duplicates.
python sort_faces.py dedup work/cache/nl_full.npz
Refine defaults
| flag | default | meaning |
|---|---|---|
--initial-threshold |
0.55 | cosine distance for stage-1 clustering |
--merge-threshold |
0.40 | centroid-level merge of over-split clusters |
--outlier-threshold |
0.55 | drop face if cosine dist from cluster centroid exceeds this (only if cluster ≥ 4) |
--min-faces |
15 | minimum unique images per faceset |
--min-short |
90 | minimum short-edge pixels of face bbox |
--min-blur |
40.0 | Laplacian-variance blur gate |
--min-det-score |
0.6 | InsightFace detector score gate |
--mode |
copy | copy / move / symlink |
Prior runs (as of 2026-04-22)
work/cache/kos11.npz— 181 images, 333 faces fromKos '11/→kos11_sorted/work/cache/nl_all.npz— 916 images, 1396 faces fromNeuer Ordner (2)/New Folder/→nl_sorted/raw/, refined to 6 facesets (197, 120, 91, 47, 23, 18 images)
Output lives outside the repo at /mnt/e/temp_things/fcswp/.