Not able to load image from local node js server

i tried the following two ways o loading image and output of the following codes are commemnted
1st try

 var imageAsBase64 = fs.readFileSync(path, 'base64');
          console.log('Exists ' + typeof (imageAsBase64)) // output  :Exists string
          
          
          const image = await faceapi.bufferToImage(imageAsBase64)
              .then(res =>{console.log(res)})
              .catch(e=> console.log("Error e "+e)) //output :Error e TypeError: Right-hand side of 'instanceof' is not an object

2nd try

   var imageAsBase64 = fs.readFileSync(path);
            console.log('Exists ' + typeof (imageAsBase64)) // Exists object
            
    
            const image = await faceapi.fetchImage(imageAsBase64)
                .then(res =>{console.log(res)})
                .catch(e=> console.log("Error e "+e)) //Error e Type Error: Only absolute URLs are supported

should i missing something or i need to try different way please help…

[justadudewhohacks]

faceapi.bufferToImage returns uses Blob under the hood, so you would need a node polyfill for that.

faceapi.fetchImage as the name implies uses fetch under the hood, thus it doesn’t work with filepaths to local files.

I would recommend you to use the node canvas package for reading and writing images as stated in the README and shown in the node examples.

[CodeApeAlpha]

Tech Stack -MERN

I’m am having a similar issue, when attempting to buffer the image sent from the request body express server.

const image= await faceapi.bufferToImage(req.files.image);

ReferenceError: Blob is not defined

To put it simple how can I, buffer the image to perform something as simple as this. // Detect all faces from buffered image

const detections =await faceapi.detectAllFaces(image).withFaceLandmarks().withFaceDescriptors(); console.log(detections.length);

@WebDevSimplified Watched your videos, they are very helpful @justadudewhohacks Thanks for contributing to the community.