diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index 734a7cb..3706205 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ RUN apt-get update \
 COPY requirements.txt ./requirements.txt
 
 # Install CPU-only PyTorch wheels so the container does not pull CUDA runtimes.
-RUN pip install --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu -r requirements.txt
+RUN pip install --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu -r requirements.txt \
+    && pip install --no-deps facenet-pytorch==2.6.0
 
 COPY . .
 
diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 4be2aa8..f4d937b 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,9 @@ python-multipart==0.0.20
 email-validator==2.3.0
 firebase-admin==7.1.0
 transformers==4.57.1
-torch==2.2.2+cpu
-torchvision==0.17.2+cpu
+torch==2.6.0+cpu
+torchvision==0.21.0+cpu
 opencv-python-headless==4.11.0.86
-facenet-pytorch==2.6.0
 timm==1.0.19
 Pillow==10.2.0
 numpy==1.26.4