Does Google Cloud Vision API support face recognition or face identification?

sreekar reddy picture sreekar reddy · Jan 23, 2017 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I am looking for a Google Cloud API that can do both face recognition and identification. My understanding is that the Google Cloud Vision API will support only face detection, but not recognition.

Is there any Google Cloud API that can do face recognition?

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sopheamak picture sopheamak · May 19, 2017

According to Google Vision API documentation. It doesn't support Face Recognition, only Face Detection and other attributes detection such as lable, landmark, web, label.

Face Detection : detect multiple faces within an image, along with the associated key facial attributes like emotional state or wearing headwear. Facial Recognition is not supported.

Label Detection : Detect broad sets of categories within an image, ranging from modes of transportation to animals.

Explicit Content Detection : Detect explicit content like adult content or violent content within an image.

Logo Detection : Detect popular product logos within an image.

Landmark Detection : Detect popular natural and man-made structures within an image.

Image Attributes : Detect general attributes of the image, such as dominant colors and appropriate crop hints. Web Detection : Search the Internet for similar images.

Optical Character Recognition : Detect and extract text within an image, with support for a broad range of languages, along with support for automatic language identification.

Check out more details : https://cloud.google.com/vision/

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