# import the necessary packages
import face_recognition
import argparse
import pickle
import cv2

# construct the argument parser and parse the arguments
ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("-e", "--encodings", required=True,
	help="path to serialized db of facial encodings")
ap.add_argument("-i", "--image", required=True,
	help="path to input image")
ap.add_argument("-d", "--detection-method", type=str, default="cnn",
	help="face detection model to use: either `hog` or `cnn`")
args = vars(ap.parse_args())