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Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by thechut » Sat, Jul 07, 2012, 8:21 PM UTC

Hey just got the email after signing up.

I was using face.com's facebook facial recognition API, to match pictures taken with a webcam to somebody's facebook friends. I'm looking mostly for facial recognition/comparison, facebook integration would be nice but is not necessary.

I look forward to seeing what you guys develop. Good luck!

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by thechut » Sat, Jul 07, 2012, 8:23 PM UTC

sabalaba wrote: post #16

We've been looking at the rage on twitter about this, please post what part of the face.com API you used below and we'll prioritize development:

Facial recognition integrated with facebook was great, but the facebook part isn't necessary.

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by jdus » Sat, Jul 07, 2012, 8:35 PM UTC

We are mainly interested in age and gender recognition in photos. Looking forward to your alternative API...

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by Gybra » Sat, Jul 07, 2012, 9:55 PM UTC

i was using face recognition and face detect with also age estimation in face.com

I hope you implement first that.

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by kshatrea » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 7:34 AM UTC

My company and I've been using the face.com face detection API extensively. OpenCV's in-built face detector just doesn't cut it, and we needed something built better.

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by tomerb » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 7:41 AM UTC

I would like to see a good alternative for recognize method and group method.

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by JaredLangguth » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 8:06 AM UTC

Features ranked in descending order of importance (first entry being most important to me)

1) face recognition (with confidence value) [faces_recognize]

2) save tags/people to own namespace [tags_save]

3) get list of photos a person, or group of people are in [tags_get]

4) import feature to take face.com's discovered values

And for the service not to sold and then shut down.

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by tonynero » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 8:34 AM UTC

I only wasted a few hours integrating face.com and used it for gender detection mainly. In the end a lot of african people showed as the incorrect gender so I'm okay with removing this option.

I am glad i did not use it further.

Face.com - you suck for shutting down

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by saureens » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 9:39 AM UTC

Are you providing recognition or detection?

Re: Face.com API Alternative Beta Sign-Up

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Post by kilian » Sun, Jul 08, 2012, 11:50 AM UTC

sabalaba wrote: post #16

We've been looking at the rage on twitter about this, please post what part of the face.com API you used below and we'll prioritize development:

I feel simple compared to all the others, but I was just using it for eye detection.