Error during face recognition: Unsupported image type, must be 8bit gray or RGB image.

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• face_recognition version: 1.3.0
• Python version: 3.12.4
• Operating System: MacOS Sonoma Version 14.5 (23F79)

Description

I am trying to implement a face recognition login system using the face_recognition library in a Flask web application. The image is captured from a webcam using JavaScript, converted to a data URL, and sent to the server. However, I am consistently encountering the error Unsupported image type, must be 8bit gray or RGB image despite ensuring the image is in the correct format.

What went wrong:

•	The error occurs during the face_recognition.face_encodings function call.
•	Debugging indicates that the image is converted to RGB and is an 8-bit image, but the error persists.

Expected:

•	The function face_recognition.face_encodings should process the image and return face encodings if faces are detected.

What I Did

Traceback:

DEBUG: STREAM b'IHDR' 16 13
DEBUG: STREAM b'sRGB' 41 1
DEBUG: STREAM b'IDAT' 54 8192
DEBUG: Original image mode: RGBA
DEBUG: Converted image mode: RGB
DEBUG: Image shape: (480, 640, 3), dtype: uint8
ERROR: Error during face recognition: Unsupported image type, must be 8bit gray or RGB image.
INFO: 127.0.0.1 - - [27/Jun/2024 22:23:00] "POST /login HTTP/1.1" 200 -