Enroll people. Identify faces in real time.

Workers • Camera • Live • Remote

Sentra is a desktop application for people registration and real-time facial identification from a camera source (USB or network stream). It includes a Live mode for on-screen tracking and a LAN-only remote panel so you can check status from a phone or PC on the same network.

APP: DESKTOP

INPUT: USB / RTSP / HTTP

MODE: LIVE FACE ID

REMOTE: LAN WEB PANEL

Plain scope: Sentra is a local tool for identity lookup on a controlled camera feed. It shows IDENTIFIED (with a score) for known profiles and UNKNOWN when a face does not match your registry. It requires Terms & Conditions acceptance and a license check at startup—if either fails, the app does not launch. Remote access is optional and intended for use inside your LAN (password required).

GPU acceleration (optional): To run Sentra with GPU providers, the machine where it is installed must have:

An NVIDIA GPU with CUDA 13.1 support
NVIDIA drivers installed
CUDA 13.1 + cuBLAS 13 + cuFFT 12 resolvable (via CUDA_PATH or PATH)
cuDNN 9 resolvable (via CUDNN_HOME/CUDNN_PATH or PATH)

If these are not present, Sentra will run in CPU-only mode.

Download → How it works

What happens when you open Sentra

Terms & Conditions appear first and must be accepted.
Then Sentra runs a license check. Fail either step and the app will not start.
The main window header shows ONLINE/OFFLINE plus an accelerator indicator (from the user’s point of view, it’s just a performance/availability status).

Design intent: predictable, local operation on your own hardware (no cloud login).

Main areas (tabs)

Workers: registry, profiles, and enrollment samples.
Camera: connect and configure the video source.
Live: real-time video with face tracking and identification overlays.
Remote: LAN web panel with password access.
Settings: thresholds and maintenance (reload models, detector threshold, max faces per frame, prefer closest faces, match threshold).

Reality check: face matching is probabilistic. Treat scores as signals, not certainty.

Workers: profiles and enrollment

Searchable table with ID, Short Name, and Full Name.
Short Name is required to save a profile properly.
Attach face samples via Add Photo File… (import images) or Capture from Camera (live capture when a face is detected and “ready to capture”).
Import Photos… can batch-import and optionally create profiles from detected faces (you still need to fill Short Name).
You can delete a worker with confirmation.

Destructive option: Wipe ALL Data deletes profiles, facial data, and remote credentials. It is irreversible.

Camera: connect a video source

USB: auto-scan camera indexes (0–8) and select a device.
Network: enter an RTSP or HTTP URL and Test Connection.
Optional discovery for network cameras (ONVIF + LAN search) to help you find endpoints.

Expectation: if the stream is unstable or low-light, identification quality will degrade.

Live: real-time identification

Shows the live feed and draws overlays (face box + landmarks) so you can see what is being tracked.
Maintains Last Face status:
- none: “—”
- face seen but not matched: UNKNOWN
- matched: IDENTIFIED (score) + profile fields
When multiple faces are present, Sentra selects a target to avoid chaotic switching; you can manually lock a target by clicking it.

Remote: LAN web panel (password required)

Optional local server on a configurable port.
No password, no access: the panel refuses connections until a password is set in the app.
Shows Camera Online/Offline, Last Face, a “Live” frame, and a Profile block when identified.
Sentra displays the panel URL and a QR code for quick opening on a phone.

Security: this is intended for use inside your network. Exposing it to the internet is your risk.

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