* feat(face-recognition): add insightface backend for 1:1 verify, 1:N identify, embedding, detection, analysis
Adds face recognition as a new first-class capability in LocalAI via the
`insightface` Python backend, with a pluggable two-engine design so
non-commercial (insightface model packs) and commercial-safe
(OpenCV Zoo YuNet + SFace) models share the same gRPC/HTTP surface.
New gRPC RPCs (backend/backend.proto):
* FaceVerify(FaceVerifyRequest) returns FaceVerifyResponse
* FaceAnalyze(FaceAnalyzeRequest) returns FaceAnalyzeResponse
Existing Embedding and Detect RPCs are reused (face image in
PredictOptions.Images / DetectOptions.src) for face embedding and
face detection respectively.
New HTTP endpoints under /v1/face/:
* verify — 1:1 image pair same-person decision
* analyze — per-face age + gender (emotion/race reserved)
* register — 1:N enrollment; stores embedding in vector store
* identify — 1:N recognition; detect → embed → StoresFind
* forget — remove a registered face by opaque ID
Service layer (core/services/facerecognition/) introduces a
`Registry` interface with one in-memory `storeRegistry` impl backed
by LocalAI's existing local-store gRPC vector backend. HTTP handlers
depend on the interface, not on StoresSet/StoresFind directly, so a
persistent PostgreSQL/pgvector implementation can be slotted in via a
single constructor change in core/application (TODO marker in the
package doc).
New usecase flag FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION; insightface is also wired
into FLAG_DETECTION so /v1/detection works for face bounding boxes.
Gallery (backend/index.yaml) ships three entries:
* insightface-buffalo-l — SCRFD-10GF + ArcFace R50 + genderage
(~326MB pre-baked; non-commercial research use only)
* insightface-opencv — YuNet + SFace (~40MB pre-baked; Apache 2.0)
* insightface-buffalo-s — SCRFD-500MF + MBF (runtime download; non-commercial)
Python backend (backend/python/insightface/):
* engines.py — FaceEngine protocol with InsightFaceEngine and
OnnxDirectEngine; resolves model paths relative to the backend
directory so the same gallery config works in docker-scratch and
in the e2e-backends rootfs-extraction harness.
* backend.py — gRPC servicer implementing Health, LoadModel, Status,
Embedding, Detect, FaceVerify, FaceAnalyze.
* install.sh — pre-bakes buffalo_l + OpenCV YuNet/SFace inside the
backend directory so first-run is offline-clean (the final scratch
image only preserves files under /<backend>/).
* test.py — parametrized unit tests over both engines.
Tests:
* Registry unit tests (go test -race ./core/services/facerecognition/...)
— in-memory fake grpc.Backend, table-driven, covers register/
identify/forget/error paths + concurrent access.
* tests/e2e-backends/backend_test.go extended with face caps
(face_detect, face_embed, face_verify, face_analyze); relative
ordering + configurable verifyCeiling per engine.
* Makefile targets: test-extra-backend-insightface-buffalo-l,
-opencv, and the -all aggregate.
* CI: .github/workflows/test-extra.yml gains tests-insightface-grpc,
auto-triggered by changes under backend/python/insightface/.
Docs:
* docs/content/features/face-recognition.md — feature page with
license table, quickstart (defaults to the commercial-safe model),
models matrix, API reference, 1:N workflow, storage caveats.
* Cross-refs in object-detection.md, stores.md, embeddings.md, and
whats-new.md.
* Contributor README at backend/python/insightface/README.md.
Verified end-to-end:
* buffalo_l: 6/6 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed,
face_verify, face_analyze).
* opencv: 5/5 specs (same minus face_analyze — SFace has no
demographic head; correctly skipped via BACKEND_TEST_CAPS).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): move engine selection to model gallery, collapse backend entries
The previous commit put engine/model_pack options on backend gallery
entries (`backend/index.yaml`). That was wrong — `GalleryBackend`
(core/gallery/backend_types.go:32) has no `options` field, so the
YAML decoder silently dropped those keys and all three "different
insightface-*" backend entries resolved to the same container image
with no distinguishing configuration.
Correct split:
* `backend/index.yaml` now has ONE `insightface` backend entry
shipping the CPU + CUDA 12 container images. The Python backend
bundles both the non-commercial insightface model packs
(buffalo_l / buffalo_s) and the commercial-safe OpenCV Zoo
weights (YuNet + SFace); the active engine is selected at
LoadModel time via `options: ["engine:..."]`.
* `gallery/index.yaml` gains three model entries —
`insightface-buffalo-l`, `insightface-opencv`,
`insightface-buffalo-s` — each setting the appropriate
`overrides.backend` + `overrides.options` so installing one
actually gives the user the intended engine. This matches how
`rfdetr-base` lives in the model gallery against the `rfdetr`
backend.
The earlier e2e tests passed despite this bug because the Makefile
targets pass `BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS` directly to LoadModel via gRPC,
bypassing any gallery resolution entirely. No code changes needed.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): cover all supported models in the gallery + drop weight baking
Follows up on the model-gallery split: adds entries for every model
configuration either engine actually supports, and switches weight
delivery from image-baked to LocalAI's standard gallery mechanism.
Gallery now has seven `insightface-*` model entries (gallery/index.yaml):
insightface (family) — non-commercial research use
• buffalo-l (326MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet50 + genderage, default
• buffalo-m (313MB) — SCRFD-2.5GF + ResNet50 + genderage
• buffalo-s (159MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF + genderage
• buffalo-sc (16MB) — SCRFD-500MF + MBF, recognition only
(no landmarks, no demographics — analyze
returns empty attributes)
• antelopev2 (407MB) — SCRFD-10GF + ResNet100@Glint360K + genderage
OpenCV Zoo family — Apache 2.0 commercial-safe
• opencv — YuNet + SFace fp32 (~40MB)
• opencv-int8 — YuNet + SFace int8 (~12MB, ~3x smaller, faster on CPU)
Model weights are no longer baked into the backend image. The image
now ships only the Python runtime + libraries (~275MB content size,
~1.18GB disk vs ~1.21GB when weights were baked). Weights flow through
LocalAI's gallery mechanism:
* OpenCV variants list `files:` with ONNX URIs + SHA-256, so
`local-ai models install insightface-opencv` pulls them into the
models directory exactly like any other gallery-managed model.
* insightface packs (upstream distributes .zip archives only, not
individual ONNX files) auto-download on first LoadModel via
FaceAnalysis' built-in machinery, rooted at the LocalAI models
directory so they live alongside everything else — same pattern
`rfdetr` uses with `inference.get_model()`.
Backend changes (backend/python/insightface/):
* backend.py — LoadModel propagates `ModelOptions.ModelPath` (the
LocalAI models directory) to engines via a `_model_dir` hint.
This replaces the earlier ModelFile-dirname approach; ModelPath
is the canonical "models directory" variable set by the Go loader
(pkg/model/initializers.go:144) and is always populated.
* engines.py::_resolve_model_path — picks up `model_dir` and searches
it (plus basename-in-model-dir) before falling back to the dev
script-dir. This is how OnnxDirectEngine finds gallery-downloaded
YuNet/SFace files by filename only.
* engines.py::_flatten_insightface_pack — new helper that works
around an upstream packaging inconsistency: buffalo_l/s/sc zips
expand flat, but buffalo_m and antelopev2 zips wrap their ONNX
files in a redundant `<name>/` directory. insightface's own
loader looks one level too shallow and fails. We call
`ensure_available()` explicitly, flatten if nested, then hand to
FaceAnalysis.
* engines.py::InsightFaceEngine.prepare — root-resolution order now
includes the `_model_dir` hint so packs download into the LocalAI
models directory by default.
* install.sh — no longer pre-downloads any weights. Everything is
gallery-managed now.
* smoke.py (new) — parametrized smoke test that iterates over every
gallery configuration, simulating the LocalAI install flow
(creates a models dir, fetches OpenCV files with checksum
verification, lets insightface auto-download its packs), then
runs detect + embed + verify (+ analyze where supported) through
the in-process BackendServicer.
* test.py — OnnxDirectEngineTest no longer hardcodes `/models/opencv/`
paths; downloads ONNX files to a temp dir at setUpClass time and
passes ModelPath accordingly.
Registry change (core/services/facerecognition/store_registry.go):
* `dim=0` in NewStoreRegistry now means "accept whatever dimension
arrives" — needed because the backend supports 512-d ArcFace/MBF
and 128-d SFace via the same Registry. A non-zero dim still fails
fast with ErrDimensionMismatch.
* core/application plumbs `faceEmbeddingDim = 0`, explaining the
rationale in the comment.
Backend gallery description updated to reflect that the image carries
no weights — it's just Python + engines.
Smoke-tested all 7 configurations against the rebuilt image (with the
flatten fix applied), exit 0:
PASS: insightface-buffalo-l faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-sc faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-s faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-buffalo-m faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-antelopev2 faces=6 dim=512 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
PASS: insightface-opencv-int8 faces=6 dim=128 same-dist=0.000
7/7 passed
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): pre-fetch OpenCV ONNX for e2e target; drop stale pre-baked claim
CI regression from the previous commit: I moved OpenCV Zoo weight
delivery to LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism, but the
test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv target was still passing
relative paths `detector_onnx:models/opencv/yunet.onnx` in
BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS. The e2e suite drives LoadModel directly over
gRPC without going through the gallery, so those relative paths
resolved to nothing and OpenCV's ONNXImporter failed:
LoadModel failed: Failed to load face engine:
OpenCV(4.13.0) ... Can't read ONNX file: models/opencv/yunet.onnx
Fix: add an `insightface-opencv-models` prerequisite target that
fetches the two ONNX files (YuNet + SFace) to a deterministic host
cache at /tmp/localai-insightface-opencv-cache/, verifies SHA-256,
and skips the download on re-runs. The opencv test target depends on
it and passes absolute paths in BACKEND_TEST_OPTIONS, so the backend
finds the files via its normal absolute-path resolution branch.
Also refresh the buffalo_l comment: it no longer says "pre-baked"
(nothing is — the pack auto-downloads from upstream's GitHub release
on first LoadModel, same as in CI).
Locally verified: `make test-extra-backend-insightface-opencv` passes
5/5 specs (health, load, face_detect, face_embed, face_verify).
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* feat(face-recognition): add POST /v1/face/embed + correct /v1/embeddings docs
The docs promised that /v1/embeddings returns face vectors when you
send an image data-URI. That was never true: /v1/embeddings is
OpenAI-compatible and text-only by contract — its handler goes
through `core/backend/embeddings.go::ModelEmbedding`, which sets
`predictOptions.Embeddings = s` (a string of TEXT to embed) and never
populates `predictOptions.Images[]`. The Python backend's Embedding
gRPC method does handle Images[] (that's how /v1/face/register reaches
it internally via `backend.FaceEmbed`), but the HTTP embeddings
endpoint wasn't wired to populate it.
Rather than overload /v1/embeddings with image-vs-text detection —
messy, and the endpoint is OpenAI-compatible by design — add a
dedicated /v1/face/embed endpoint that wraps `backend.FaceEmbed`
(already used internally by /v1/face/register and /v1/face/identify).
Matches LocalAI's convention of a dedicated path per non-standard flow
(/v1/rerank, /v1/detection, /v1/face/verify etc.).
Response:
{
"embedding": [<dim> floats, L2-normed],
"dim": int, // 512 for ArcFace R50 / MBF, 128 for SFace
"model": "<name>"
}
Live-tested on the opencv engine: returns a 128-d L2-normalized vector
(sum(x^2) = 1.0000). Sentinel in docs updated to note /v1/embeddings
is text-only and point image users at /v1/face/embed instead.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(http): map malformed image input + gRPC status codes to proper 4xx
Image-input failures on LocalAI's single-image endpoints (/v1/detection,
/v1/face/{verify,analyze,embed,register,identify}) have historically
returned 500 — even when the client was the one who sent garbage.
Classic example: you POST an "image" that isn't a URL, isn't a
data-URI, and isn't a valid JPEG/PNG — the server shouldn't claim
that's its fault.
Two helpers land in core/http/endpoints/localai/images.go and every
single-image handler is switched over:
* decodeImageInput(s)
Wraps utils.GetContentURIAsBase64 and turns any failure
(invalid URL, not a data-URI, download error, etc.) into
echo.NewHTTPError(400, "invalid image input: ...").
* mapBackendError(err)
Inspects the gRPC status on a backend call error and maps:
INVALID_ARGUMENT → 400 Bad Request
NOT_FOUND → 404 Not Found
FAILED_PRECONDITION → 412 Precondition Failed
Unimplemented → 501 Not Implemented
All other codes fall through unchanged (still 500).
Before, my 1×1 PNG error-path test returned:
HTTP 500 "rpc error: code = InvalidArgument desc = failed to decode one or both images"
After:
HTTP 400 "failed to decode one or both images"
Scope-limited to the LocalAI single-image endpoints. The multi-modal
paths (middleware/request.go, openresponses/responses.go,
openai/realtime.go) intentionally log-and-skip individual media parts
when decoding fails — different design intent (graceful degradation
of a multi-part message), not a 400-worthy failure. Left untouched.
Live-verified: every error case in /tmp/face_errors.py now returns
4xx with a meaningful message; the "image with no face (1x1 PNG)"
case specifically went from 500 → 400.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* refactor(face-recognition): insightface packs go through gallery files:, drop FaceAnalysis
Follows up on the discovery that LocalAI's gallery `files:` mechanism
handles archives (zip, tar.gz, …) via mholt/archiver/v3 — the rhasspy
piper voices use exactly this pattern. Insightface packs are zip
archives, so we can now deliver them the same way every other
gallery-managed model gets delivered: declaratively, checksum-verified,
through LocalAI's standard download+extract pipeline.
Two changes:
1. Gallery (gallery/index.yaml) — every insightface-* entry gains a
`files:` list with the pack zip's URI + SHA-256. `local-ai models
install insightface-buffalo-l` now fetches the zip, verifies the
hash, and extracts it into the models directory. No more reliance
on insightface's library-internal `ensure_available()` auto-download
or its hardcoded `BASE_REPO_URL`.
2. InsightFaceEngine (backend/python/insightface/engines.py) — drops
the FaceAnalysis wrapper and drives insightface's `model_zoo`
directly. The ~50 lines FaceAnalysis provides — glob ONNX files,
route each through `model_zoo.get_model()`, build a
`{taskname: model}` dict, loop per-face at inference — are
reimplemented in `InsightFaceEngine`. The actual inference classes
(RetinaFace, ArcFaceONNX, Attribute, Landmark) are still
insightface's — we only replicate the glue, so drift risk against
upstream is minimal.
Why drop FaceAnalysis: it hard-codes a `<root>/models/<name>/*.onnx`
layout that doesn't match what LocalAI's zip extraction produces.
LocalAI unpacks archives flat into `<models_dir>`. Upstream packs
are inconsistent — buffalo_l/s/sc ship ONNX at the zip root (lands
at `<models_dir>/*.onnx`), buffalo_m/antelopev2 wrap in a redundant
`<name>/` dir (lands at `<models_dir>/<name>/*.onnx`). The new
`_locate_insightface_pack` helper searches both locations plus
legacy paths and returns whichever has ONNX files. Replaces the
earlier `_flatten_insightface_pack` helper (which tried to fight
FaceAnalysis's layout expectations; now we just find the files
wherever they are).
Net effect for users: install once via LocalAI's managed flow,
weights live alongside every other model, progress shows in the
jobs endpoint, no first-load network call. Same API surface,
cleaner plumbing.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
* fix(face-recognition): CI's insightface e2e path needs the pack pre-fetched
The e2e suite drives LoadModel over gRPC without going through LocalAI's
gallery flow, so the engine's `_model_dir` option (normally populated
from ModelPath) is empty. Previously the insightface target relied on
FaceAnalysis auto-download to paper over this, but we dropped
FaceAnalysis in favor of direct model_zoo calls — so the buffalo_l
target started failing at LoadModel with "no insightface pack found".
Mirror the opencv target's pre-fetch pattern: download buffalo_sc.zip
(same SHA as the gallery entry), extract it on the host, and pass
`root:<dir>` so the engine locates the pack without needing
ModelPath. Switched to buffalo_sc (smallest pack, ~16MB) to keep CI
fast; it covers the same insightface engine code path as buffalo_l.
Face analyze cap dropped since buffalo_sc has no age/gender head.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* feat(face-recognition): surface face-recognition in advertised feature maps
The six /v1/face/* endpoints were missing from every place LocalAI
advertises its feature surface to clients:
* api_instructions — the machine-readable capability index at
GET /api/instructions. Added `face-recognition` as a dedicated
instruction area with an intro that calls out the in-memory
registry caveat and the /v1/face/embed vs /v1/embeddings split.
* auth/permissions — added FeatureFaceRecognition constant, routed
all six face endpoints through it so admins can gate them per-user
like any other API feature. Default ON (matches the other API
features).
* React UI capabilities — CAP_FACE_RECOGNITION symbol mapped to
FLAG_FACE_RECOGNITION. Declared only for now; the Face page is a
follow-up (noted in the plan).
Instruction count bumped 9 → 10; test updated.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
* docs(agents): capture advertising-surface steps in the endpoint guide
Before this change, adding a new /v1/* endpoint reliably missed one or
more of: the swagger @Tags annotation, the /api/instructions registry,
the auth RouteFeatureRegistry, and the React UI CAP_* symbol. The
endpoint would work but be invisible to API consumers, admins, and the
UI — and nothing in the existing docs said to look in those places.
Extend .agents/api-endpoints-and-auth.md with a new "Advertising
surfaces" section covering all four surfaces (swagger tags, /api/
instructions, capabilities.js, docs/), and expand the closing checklist
so it's impossible to ship a feature without visiting each one. Hoist a
one-liner reminder into AGENTS.md's Quick Reference so agents skim it
before diving in.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7[1m]
fix: Add model parameter to neutts-air gallery definition
The neutts-air model entry was missing the 'model' parameter in its
configuration, which caused LocalAI to fail with an 'Unrecognized model'
error when trying to use it. This change adds the required model parameter
pointing to the HuggingFace repository (neuphonic/neutts-air) so the backend
can properly load the model.
Fixes#8792
Signed-off-by: localai-bot <localai-bot@example.com>
Co-authored-by: localai-bot <localai-bot@example.com>
Fix duplicate sha256 keys in wan models gallery
The wan models previously defined the `sha256` key twice in their files lists,
which triggered strict mapping key checks in the YAML parser and resulted
in unmarshal errors that crashed the `/api/models` loading. This removes
the redundant trailing `sha256` keys from the Wan model definitions.
Assisted-by: Antigravity:Gemini-3.1-Pro-High [multi_replace_file_content, run_command]
Signed-off-by: Alex <codecrusher24@gmail.com>
feat(gallery): add Wan 2.1 I2V 14B 720P + pin all wan ggufs by sha256
Adds a new entry for the native-720p image-to-video sibling of the
480p I2V model (wan-2.1-i2v-14b-480p-ggml). The 720p I2V model is
trained purely as image-to-video — no first-last-frame interpolation
path — so motion is freer than repurposing the FLF2V 720P variant as
an i2v. Shares the same VAE, umt5_xxl text encoder, and clip_vision_h
auxiliary files as the existing 480p I2V and 720p FLF2V entries, so
no new aux downloads are introduced.
Also pins the main diffusion gguf by sha256 for the new entry and for
the three existing wan entries that were previously missing a hash
(wan-2.1-t2v-1.3b-ggml, wan-2.1-i2v-14b-480p-ggml,
wan-2.1-flf2v-14b-720p-ggml). Hashes were fetched from HuggingFace's
x-linked-etag header per .agents/adding-gallery-models.md.
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-7
First-last-frame-to-video variant of the 14B Wan family. Accepts a
start and end reference image and — unlike the pure i2v path — runs
both through clip_vision, so the final frame lands on the end image
both in pixel and semantic space. Right pick for seamless loops
(start_image == end_image) and narrative A→B cuts.
Shares the same VAE, umt5_xxl text encoder, and clip_vision_h as the
I2V 14B entry. Options block mirrors i2v's full-list-in-override
style so the template merge doesn't drop fields.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The gemma-4-26b-a4b-it, gemma-4-e2b-it, and gemma-4-e4b-it gallery
entries pointed at files that do not exist on HuggingFace, so LocalAI
fails with 404 when users try to install them.
Two issues per entry:
- mmproj filename uses the 'f16' quantization suffix, but ggml-org
publishes the mmproj projectors as 'bf16'.
- The e2b and e4b URIs hardcode lowercase 'e2b'/'e4b' in the filename
component. HuggingFace file paths are case-sensitive and the real
files use uppercase 'E2B'/'E4B'.
Updated filename, uri, sha256, and the top-level 'mmproj' and
'parameters.model' references so every entry points at a real file
and the declared hashes match the content.
Verified each URI resolves (HTTP 302) and each sha256 matches the
'x-linked-etag' header returned by HuggingFace.
Signed-off-by: Matt Van Horn <mvanhorn@gmail.com>
Removed deprecated Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model configuration and updated model path for Qwen3.
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@users.noreply.github.com>
