[LRUG] Face detection APIs

[Josh McMillan]

Hi Benji,

I’ve used OpenCV with the Viola-Jones algorithm with some degree of success in the past. 

There’s some bindings to OpenCV for Ruby available: https://github.com/ruby-opencv/ruby-opencv. The README includes an example of doing face detection. It’s not the most reliable mechanism, but with some tweaking you can get it to acceptable level of accuracy.

HTH

Cheers,
Josh

On 28 April 2015 at 14:50:32, Benji Lanyado (benjilanyado at gmail.com) wrote:

Hello all,

We're doing some fiddling with face detection APIs, and were wondering if any of you had any strong feelings on APIs to choose or avoid?

Things we're interested in:

• Option for straight up face detection [bool - "there's a face in that image!"], rather than full-fat face recognition ["that's Mary!"], or analysis ["Mary is happy!"]. We're only interested in detection.

• Value for money.

• Ease of integration, documentation, and reliability.

Any experiences with an API, good or bad, would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance,
 
Benji Lanyado
Founder, Picfair.com
@benjilanyado
+44 7980 300 606

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