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Face++: API for face detection – also detects gender, age, pose
- Andrenid 12y agoDoesn't work at all for me. ILLEGAL_USE_OF_DEMO_KEY
- anonfunction 12y agoYou have to sign up and create an app to get the key. From what I could gather there is no limit or pricing on the site. Once you are in to the developer center they have you can see the docs and use the API. It's quite nice, even if it ages me at 31, a bit older than I am.
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- huskyr 12y agoI've tried this for a hobby project, and was quite surprised by the quality of the API. I'm a bit wary though because of the lack of a clear business model / pricing on their website.
- arb99 12y agoLooks interesting, might implement this on a project soon. Their pricing is a bit iffy though... " The Face++ APIs are currently provided free of charge. However, Face++ may charge fees for future use of or access to the Face++ APIs or the Face++ services according to its sole discretion. If Face++ decides to charge for the Face++ APIs Services, Face++ will provide you prior notice of such charges. Face++ may also charge You when providing You a service different from the service under these Terms; for example, we may charge additional fees for excessive API use. " not even a rough clue given as to how much they'll charge (could be reasonable, or very expensive)... but, still, looks very good
- benjamincburns 12y agoRecognition leaves something to be desired. Detection classifies her as female, 40 years old ±10 years. Recognition apparently doesn't add metadata parameters from detection into it's weighting: http://imgur.com/n23vVQT http://imgur.com/n23vVQT
- vtempest 12y agohttp://challengepost.com/software/smileforce http://challengepost.com/software/smileforce ran emotional sentiment analysis from an ipad camera while user scrolled thru menu items. won a prize in salesforce $1 hackathon
- chetangole 12y agoIt is not even detecting my face!
- anonfunction 12y agoIt needs a good photo of mostly just your face in order to get a good detection. Detected my face quite accurately, I'd try again with a headshot.
- nly 12y agoSo you need to detect the face before you can detect the face...
- nnnnni 12y agoI wonder if this could be used to filter out duckface pictures...
- kp666 12y agohappy to see this...was using face.com till facebook bought them :(
- ninjaplease 12y agoMeh. Betaface has had this for years.
- ParvusPonte 12y agoI believe this is a good place to plug a very usable open source computer vision project: http://openbiometrics.org/ http://openbiometrics.org/ Fantastic alternative you can hack with if you're allergic to APIs that "might" charge their free service in the future.
- jklontz 12y agoOpenBR author here, thanks for the plug!
- hackerboos 12y agoI've been doing research for a facial detection/facial information API since Face.com was mothballed by Facebook. Not loving the idea of relying on third-party APIs for the above reason makes this project is very useful. Thanks.
- balakk 12y agoAnother project that I think is really good is dlib : http://dlib.net http://dlib.net To compare how well it works compared to OpenCV's face detector: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsK0hzcEyHI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsK0hzcEyHI dlib is also great at picking out facial landmarks: http://blog.dlib.net/2014/08/real-time-face-pose-estimation.html http://blog.dlib.net/2014/08/real-time-face-pose-estimation.... Between dlib and OpenBR, I think almost all of these usecases can be covered without commercial APIs - if you have a large enough training set. Face Recognition is a whole another matter though.
- NKCSS 12y agoLol, it doesn't like my picture much :P I'm a 31 year old white guy (ok, was 29 in the picture) and it tells me I'm probably 43 with 7 variance and black :P
- V-2 12y agoI'm in my 30s and the software thinks I'm 7 or 14, depending on the pic :) And I don't look this childish at all
- downandout 12y agoI have some experience with computer vision [1]. It is non-trivial and requires real processing power to do it at scale. So I suspect they'll be charging soon unless they have a huge amount of funding. Other than that potential issue, this looks like a fairly usable, credible API. [1] I wrote software to scan Facebook profile photos for overweight people. We store their ID's for targeting through FB ads.
- afandian 12y agoYour footnote should win some kind of prize for "most terrifying inconsequential remark".
- downandout 12y agoI literally LOL'd at this :) .
- discardorama 12y agoI think there's an unspoken rule on the internet: any piece of personal data will eventually be used for ad targeting. The response rates for display ads are so abysmal that any edge can make a difference. CTRs (click-through rates) hover around 0.1%, so if you increased CTR by a slim 0.1%, you'd double the revenue!
- afandian 12y agoThe corollary (?) is that the most unexpected use will likely be the most lucrative.
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- tragomaskhalos 12y agoFor the last time, I am "Mr Stay Puft", I am a brand, not a real person. Please stop bombarding me with slimming products.
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- bsenftner 12y agoHow do they get away with using all those celebrity photos? Founder/CEO of the 3D Avatar Store here. We do most of what they do: face detection, facial feature detection and tracking, smile/expression analysis, and facial recognition. And we go further with 3D Reconstruction into performance animation ready 3D geometry, automated lip sync generation and so on.
- romanlevin 12y agoI'm guessing because China.
- chacham15 12y agoA lot of people dont know or dont care. E.g. look at mightytexts website[1]. [1] http://mightytext.net/ http://mightytext.net/
- bdg 12y agoThis is fun, but it thinks I'm about 20 years older than I am, and the grey-beard Swedish sysadmin was identified as a black woman.
- quasarj 12y agoYep. I'm a 30 year old bearded man. It said it was 99.7% sure I'm a 47 year old woman. At least it got my race right! Though it was only 77% sure of that.
- binwiederhier 12y agoThis is really awesome. Good job! And the response time is pretty fast too.
- helloshow 12y agoReminds me of Kairos - facial recognition API apihttp://www.kairos.com/ http://www.kairos.com/
- coleca 12y agoThanks for the mention. CTO of Kairos here. We offer a web API that will perform 2d to 3d facial recognition which helps greatly when dealing with natural world images as opposed to mug shot type of controlled imagery. We turn the 2d image into a 3d model and then normalize the pose and lighting before performing the matching leading to higher results on everyday pictures. Check us out at www.kairos.com
- neals 12y agoSo what are some people building with this? I'm curious of the possibilities, which probably are endless.
- amelius 12y agoWhat comes to mind is a generic "upload profile photo" for websites, where the system can automatically crop your uploaded photo. Or even just to check that it is a "valid" photo. Not sure how the gender/age info would be useful. That's the best I can come up with. My brain actually works best in the opposite direction (problem->solution) :)
- arthurcolle 12y agois this a project by the people at Face.com? I know they were acquired by fb some time ago so it would be neat to know they are still working on related stuff post-acquisition
- dheera 12y agoWhat's the principle behind gender detection? Is it based on machine learning algorithms trained with a huge pile of data, or is there some inherent geometric difference between male and female faces that I'm missing?
- matsiyatzy 12y agoThere's definitely geometric differences between male and female faces. The most distinct difference is that the male chin tends to be larger, giving the face a more "square" shape, while female faces have smaller chins, giving the face a slight "almond" shape. And I'm sure there's more subtle differences as well.
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- sinzone 12y agoTest it in the browser: https://www.mashape.com/faceplusplus/faceplusplus-face-detection https://www.mashape.com/faceplusplus/faceplusplus-face-detec...
- marcelocamanho 12y agoAlready getting 504 errors. Such an API cannot be free unless they got a huge amount of funding...