Revolutionary privacy technology empowering hijabis through an accessible way to erase digital footprint and protect modesty online.

Hijabis often have photos online of them without their hijab that they want removed. This product helps them find and report those images.

1. Upload a photo of yourself (with hijab) & provide keywords to find your pictures
2. We search Bing Images, Google Images (optional SerpApi key), and DuckDuckGo Images
3. We identify which ones are you (face matching)
4. Streamlined image reporting!

• Backend: Huda Siraj and Zoya Khan
• Frontend: Sanaa Asif and Aleesha Ilahi

See below for how to run locally.

Use a virtual environment so the backend uses the same Python that has TensorFlow 2.15:

cd backend
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
# TensorFlow 2.15 includes Keras; remove standalone keras so tensorflow.keras works
pip uninstall keras -y
# Optional: copy .env.example to .env and set SERPAPI_API_KEY for Google Images
# and test limits (IMAGES_PER_SOURCE, MAX_SEARCH_QUERIES, etc.)
python main.py

Always run the server with the venv activated (source venv/bin/activate then python main.py). If you see:

• No module named 'tensorflow.keras' — The standalone keras package (installed by deepface) can conflict. Uninstall it so TensorFlow’s bundled Keras is used: pip uninstall keras -y, then run python main.py again.
• AttributeError: ... register_load_context_function — Uninstall tf_keras and use only TensorFlow 2.15: pip uninstall tf-keras -y && pip install "tensorflow>=2.15.0,<2.16".

cd frontend
python -m http.server 8000
# Open http://localhost:8000 in your browser

Frontend Stack

• React (v19.2): Builds the UI with reusable components and hooks
• Axios: Sends and receives data from the Flask backend
• React Hooks: useState for managing component state
• CSS3: Custom responsive styling

Backend Stack

• Logistics
  • Flask: Python web framework for creating REST API endpoints
  • Flask-CORS: Enables cross-origin requests from React frontend
  • Python-dotenv: Environment variable management
• Libraries
  • DeepFace: AI library for facial recognition using FaceNet512 model
  • OpenCV: Image processing and computer vision operations
  • Pillow (PIL): Image manipulation and format conversion
  • NumPy: Mathematical operations on face embeddings (512-dimensional vectors)
  • Bing Image Downloader: Web scraping tool to search and download images
  • SerpApi (optional): Google Images search when SERPAPI_API_KEY is set in .env
  • DuckDuckGo Search: DuckDuckGo Images search (no API key)
  • Requests: HTTP library for downloading images from URLs
  • Werkzeug: Secure filename handling and file upload management
  • Hashlib: SHA256 image hashing for reporting