diff --git a/face_store.py b/face_store.py
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+import faiss
+import numpy as np
+import pickle
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple
+
+class FaceStore:
+    def __init__(self, dimension: int = 512):  # 512 for ArcFace
+        self.dimension = dimension
+        # Use cosine similarity instead of L2 distance
+        self.index = faiss.IndexFlatIP(dimension)  # Inner Product = Cosine similarity for normalized vectors
+        self.face_data = []
+        self.store_path = Path("face_store.pkl")
+        self.index_path = Path("face_index.faiss")
+        self.load_if_exists()
+
+    def load_if_exists(self):
+        if self.store_path.exists() and self.index_path.exists():
+            # Load face data
+            with open(self.store_path, 'rb') as f:
+                self.face_data = pickle.load(f)
+            # Load FAISS index
+            self.index = faiss.read_index(str(self.index_path))
+
+    def save(self):
+        # Save face data
+        with open(self.store_path, 'wb') as f:
+            pickle.dump(self.face_data, f)
+        # Save FAISS index
+        faiss.write_index(self.index, str(self.index_path))
+
+    def normalize_embedding(self, embedding: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
+        """L2 normalize the embedding"""
+        embedding = embedding.astype(np.float32)
+        # Reshape to 2D if needed
+        if embedding.ndim == 1:
+            embedding = embedding.reshape(1, -1)
+        # L2 normalize
+        faiss.normalize_L2(embedding)
+        return embedding
+
+    def add_face(self, name: str, embedding: np.ndarray) -> None:
+        # Normalizing the embedding before adding
+        normalized_embedding = self.normalize_embedding(embedding)
+        self.face_data.append({"name": name, "embedding": normalized_embedding.flatten()})
+        self.index.add(normalized_embedding)
+        self.save()
+        print(f"Added face for {name}. Total faces: {self.index.ntotal}")
+
+    def search_face(self, embedding: np.ndarray, threshold: float = 0.5) -> Optional[Tuple[str, float]]:
+        if self.index.ntotal == 0:
+            return None
+        
+        # Normalizing the query embedding
+        normalized_embedding = self.normalize_embedding(embedding)
+        
+        # Searching using cosine similarity
+        similarities, indices = self.index.search(normalized_embedding, 1)
+        similarity = similarities[0][0]
+        
+        print(f"Best match similarity: {similarity}, threshold: {threshold}")
+        
+        # For cosine similarity, higher is better and max is 1.0 so we can optimize and keep on checking
+        if similarity > threshold:
+            matched_face = self.face_data[indices[0][0]]
+            # Similarity is already between 0 and 1 for cosine
+            return matched_face["name"], float(similarity)
+        return None
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diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
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+
+
+from contextlib import asynccontextmanager
+import io
+from typing import List
+import numpy as np
+from fastapi import FastAPI, File, Form, HTTPException, UploadFile
+from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
+from PIL import Image
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+import insightface
+from insightface.app import FaceAnalysis
+from face_store import FaceStore
+
+# Initializing InsightFace model with better detection settings with robust detection
+face_analyzer = FaceAnalysis(
+    providers=['CPUExecutionProvider'],
+    allowed_modules=['detection', 'recognition']
+)
+face_analyzer.prepare(ctx_id=0, det_size=(640, 640))
+
+# Initializing face store
+face_store = FaceStore()
+
+@asynccontextmanager
+async def lifespan(app: FastAPI):
+    print("Initializing face recognition system...")
+    yield
+    print("Cleaning up resources...")
+
+app = FastAPI(lifespan=lifespan)
+
+app.add_middleware(
+    CORSMiddleware,
+    allow_origins=["*"],
+    allow_credentials=True,
+    allow_methods=["*"],
+    allow_headers=["*"],
+)
+
+class Visitor(BaseModel):
+    name: str
+    encoded_face: List[float]
+
+    class Config:
+        from_attributes = True
+
+def get_largest_face(faces):
+    """Select the largest face from detected faces based on bounding box area."""
+    if not faces:
+        return None
+    
+    # Calculating areas of all faces
+    areas = [(face, (face.bbox[2] - face.bbox[0]) * (face.bbox[3] - face.bbox[1])) 
+             for face in faces]
+    # Returning face with largest area
+    return max(areas, key=lambda x: x[1])[0]
+
+def process_image(image_data: bytes):
+    """Process image and return embedding of the largest face."""
+    try:
+        image_stream = io.BytesIO(image_data)
+        image_pil = Image.open(image_stream).convert("RGB")
+        
+        # Resizing image if too large (optional, adjust dimensions as needed)
+        max_size = 1920
+        if max(image_pil.size) > max_size:
+            ratio = max_size / max(image_pil.size)
+            new_size = tuple(int(dim * ratio) for dim in image_pil.size)
+            image_pil = image_pil.resize(new_size, Image.Resampling.LANCZOS)
+        
+        image_np = np.array(image_pil)
+        faces = face_analyzer.get(image_np)
+        
+        if not faces:
+            return None, "No face detected"
+            
+        # Get the largest face
+        largest_face = get_largest_face(faces)
+        
+        # Converting embedding to numpy array to ensure consistent format
+        embedding = np.array(largest_face.embedding, dtype=np.float32)
+        return embedding, None
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        return None, f"Error processing image: {str(e)}"
+
+@app.get("/")
+async def health_check():
+    return {"message": "Face recognition API is running"}
+
+@app.post("/api/register")
+async def register_visitor(name: str = Form(...), image: UploadFile = File(...)):
+    try:
+        image_data = await image.read()
+        embedding, error = process_image(image_data)
+        
+        if error:
+            return {"message": error}
+
+        # Converting embedding to numpy array if it isn't already
+        embedding = np.array(embedding, dtype=np.float32)
+
+        # Adding debug logging
+        print(f"Registering face for {name}")
+        print(f"Embedding shape: {embedding.shape}")
+        print(f"Embedding type: {type(embedding)}")
+
+        # Checking if face already exists
+        existing_match = face_store.search_face(embedding)
+        if existing_match:
+            return {
+                "message": "Visitor already exists",
+                "name": existing_match[0]
+            }
+
+        # Registering new face
+        face_store.add_face(name, embedding)
+        
+        # Verifying registration
+        verification = face_store.search_face(embedding)
+        if not verification:
+            raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail="Face registration failed verification")
+
+        return {
+            "message": "Visitor registered successfully",
+            "name": name
+        }
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(e))
+
+@app.post("/api/search")
+async def search_visitor(image: UploadFile = File(...)):
+    try:
+        image_data = await image.read()
+        embedding, error = process_image(image_data)
+        
+        if error:
+            return {"message": error}
+
+        # Converting embedding to numpy array if it isn't already
+        embedding = np.array(embedding, dtype=np.float32)
+
+        # Adding debug logging
+        print(f"Searching for face")
+        print(f"Embedding shape: {embedding.shape}")
+        print(f"Embedding type: {type(embedding)}")
+
+        match = face_store.search_face(embedding)
+        if match:
+            name, confidence = match
+            return {
+                "message": "Visitor found",
+                "name": name,
+                "confidence": confidence
+            }
+        return {"message": "Visitor not found"}
+
+    except Exception as e:
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(e))
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diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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+<!-- To run the application -->
+# python version>= 3.11
+# venv setup
+1. python -m venv venv
+
+2. venv/Scripts/activate
+
+# 1 
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+# 2 
+uvicorn main:app --reload
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diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+# Web Framework
+fastapi==0.109.2
+uvicorn==0.27.1
+python-multipart==0.0.7
+pydantic==2.6.1
+python-dotenv==1.0.1
+
+# Image Processing
+Pillow==10.2.0
+
+# Machine Learning & Vector Search
+numpy==1.26.3
+faiss-cpu==1.7.4
+insightface==0.7.3
+onnxruntime==1.16.3
+
+# Optional - for production
+gunicorn==21.2.0
+python-jose==3.3.0
+passlib==1.7.4
+bcrypt==4.1.2
+
+# Database
+sqlalchemy==2.0.25
+aiosqlite==0.19.0
+
+# CORS
+starlette==0.36.3
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