[LRUG] Face detection APIs

[Dan Garland]

Hi Benji,

I had some success with the SkyBiometry API at a hackathon last year. 
It's free for a certain limit of recognised faces...

https://www.skybiometry.com

There is a gem called 'Face' that might help out.

https://github.com/rociiu/face

I made a little sinatra layer with it at the hackathon if it helps give 
you some idea of what it could do (and what I did with no sleep and 
vodka redbulls)

https://github.com/dmgarland/easy-face

HTH
Dan

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> Hello all,
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> 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.
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> Any experiences with an API, good or bad, would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
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> Benji Lanyado
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> From: Josh McMillan <josh at joshmcmillan.co.uk>
> To: Benji Lanyado <benjilanyado at gmail.com>, London Ruby LRUG
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> Hi Benji,
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> I?ve used OpenCV with the Viola-Jones algorithm with some degree of success in the past.?
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> 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.
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> HTH
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> Cheers,
> Josh
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> 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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