how to get it working now days - solved

[zoldaten]

thanks for the code. spent the time to get it working with latest tf and keras.
here`s short memo to do:

1. install dlib

wget http://dlib.net/files/dlib-19.9.tar.bz2
tar xvf dlib-19.9.tar.bz2
cd dlib-19.9/
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
cd ..
pkg-config --libs --cflags dlib-1

2. install converter from https://github.com/ksachdeva/dlib-to-tf-keras-converter/

cd xml_generator
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build . --config Release

and convert:
./bin/xml_generator
3. fix https://github.com/ksachdeva/dlib-to-tf-keras-converter/blob/master/converter/tensorflow.py

#import tensorflow as tf
#from tensorflow.keras import backend as K
import tensorflow.compat.v1 as tf
tf.disable_v2_behavior()
from tensorflow.compat.v1.keras import backend as K

and final conversion:
python main.py --xml-weights xml_generator/build/dlib_face_recognition_resnet_model_v1.xml

success!