# Unique face recognition

**URL:** <https://forum.opencv.org/t/unique-face-recognition/6171>\
**Category:** Python\
**Tags:** programming\
**Created:** [November 12, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/unique-face-recognition/6171 "2021-11-12T10:37:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Adesoji\_Alu](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.opencv.org/adesoji_alu/32/3727_2.png) [@Adesoji\_Alu](https://forum.opencv.org/u/Adesoji_Alu)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2021, 10:37am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/unique-face-recognition/6171/1 "2021-11-12T10:37:29Z")

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From a youtube link, how can I extract uniques faces in the video using OpenCV?

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**Author:** ![Nvrcharan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Nvrcharan](https://forum.opencv.org/u/Nvrcharan)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2024, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.opencv.org/t/unique-face-recognition/6171/2 "2024-05-16T10:59:10Z")

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convert the whole video into frames and extract faces from each frame and save all the faces into a folder and apply face-recognition [using face recognition module] on images iteratively and save unique images into another folder.