Can't run Face Recognition on Apple Silicon M1

• face_recognition version: 1.3.0
• Python version: 3.8.10
• Operating System: macOS 12.1

Description

Can’t run Face Recognition on Apple Silicon based Mac

What I Did

After installing face recognition using pip3 and running face_recognition I get the following error message

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/face_recognition", line 5, in <module>
    from face_recognition.face_recognition_cli import main
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/face_recognition/__init__.py", line 7, in <module>
    from .api import load_image_file, face_locations, batch_face_locations, face_landmarks, face_encodings, compare_faces, face_distance
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/face_recognition/api.py", line 4, in <module>
    import dlib
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/dlib/__init__.py", line 19, in <module>
    from _dlib_pybind11 import *
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_dlib_pybind11.cpython-38-darwin.so, 0x0002): symbol not found in flat namespace '_png_do_expand_palette_rgb8_neon'

[Dhruvdd]

@M4Marvin try installing python 3.8, then it will work fine, you just have to degrade the python version because of which you are getting error.

[M4Marvin]

The issue is not with the apple m1, but in puthon some libraries overlap so thats why jt is fiving that error. For it you can use conda and inside that make virtual env and then download all the libraries need for you project. It worked well with me.

This method did not work for me, I tried setting up a Conda environment with Python 3.10.4. It is showing me the same error.