I believe this is a good place to plug a very usable open source computer vision project: http://openbiometrics.org/
Fantastic alternative you can hack with if you're allergic to APIs that "might" charge their free service in the future.
Looks 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
How 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.
I'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.
Reminds me of Kairos - facial recognition API apihttp://www.kairos.com/
This 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.
Recognition 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://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
What'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?
Test it in the browser: https://www.mashape.com/faceplusplus/faceplusplus-face-detec...
Lol, 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
So what are some people building with this? I'm curious of the possibilities, which probably are endless.
Already getting 504 errors. Such an API cannot be free unless they got a huge amount of funding...
This is really awesome. Good job! And the response time is pretty fast too.
is 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
I wonder if this could be used to filter out duckface pictures...
Doesn't work at all for me.
ILLEGAL_USE_OF_DEMO_KEY
It is not even detecting my face!
happy to see this...was using face.com till facebook bought them :(
Meh. Betaface has had this for years.
I 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.