Their approach is more heavy-weight as it uses GANs (IIRC) to dream up a reconstruction of your face. They need GPU VMs in the cloud, whereas mine runs on device.
Now make a face recog PI (as you stated you tried) -- or a cheap Android Phone which best serves HW(gpu) for your needs and you have solved some complex surveillance matters.
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This IS the killer feature.
Now make a face recog PI (as you stated you tried) -- or a cheap Android Phone which best serves HW(gpu) for your needs and you have solved some complex surveillance matters.