Frigate NVR Updates: Face Recognition Gets a Rework and a Quick Follow-Up Fix
Frigate's face recognition system saw a major overhaul with PR #24236, and within a day a related edge-case bug surfaced in PR #24238 involving face detection coordinates near frame boundaries.
Duration: PT1M59S
Episode overview
This episode is a short developer briefing from Frigate NVR Updates.
It explains recent repository work in plain language.
- Show: Frigate NVR Updates
- Published: 2026-09-11T13:17:07Z
- Audio duration: PT1M59S
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Good day, and welcome to Frigate NVR Updates for September 11th, 2026.
The story today is face recognition — a significant revamp landed, and it's already generating a fast follow-up fix.
PR #24236, merged by NickM-27, is a broad accuracy pass on face recognition. It brings in the YuNet face detector as part of a set of improvements aimed at making face matching more reliable. This touches detection, recognition, initialization, and testing — a wide-reaching change that resets a lot of the underlying…
That reset didn't take long to surface a bug. PR #24238, opened by ef1970 just hours after the revamp merged, flags an issue in the new YuNet detection path. When a face sits flush against the edge of a frame — say, at the very top — the detector can return a slightly negative coordinate value. The existing code was…
The takeaway for anyone working in this part of the codebase: with a major detector change like YuNet just landing, expect more edge cases like this to turn up as real-world camera angles and frame boundaries get exercised. Bounding box math around image edges is exactly where these off-by-one and casting bugs like…
What's next: watch for #24238 to get merged, since it…
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