Alternatives to face.com API
Sadly, the face.com API is being shut down due acquisition by Facebook.
Are there any decent alternatives out there?
I'm looking to check for a given image if there is a face in it + demographics content about it.
Answer
Sad news indeed. If you have a good reason and already have an account, they may extend you until October, 2012: http://developers.face.com/extension-request/
For everyone else, here's a list of potential alternatives I've compiled:
- OpenCV: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/ (C/C++ but at least its opensource, standalone and downloadable)
- Viewdle (Objective-C)... bought/axed by Google, instead see: Face Recognition on the iPhone
- Betaface API: http://www.betafaceapi.com/ (C#/.net or API)
- Rekognition: http://rekognition.com/ (API)
- Lambda Labs: http://lambdal.com/ (API; still in Private BETA)
- BiometryCloud: http://www.biometrycloud.com/ (API; as already mentioned Private BETA)
- Sky Biometry: http://www.skybiometry.com/
The following are similar but more on the Augmented Reality (AR) library side for detecting objects or movement with a webcam only, but with some extending could likely be trained to detect faces in snapshots or uploaded images as well:
- FaceAPI - Track Faces from a Webcam: http://faceapi.com
- SURF library - Image Recognition & Feature Extraction for Adobe Flash Platform: http://code.google.com/p/in-spirit/wiki/ASSURF
- Content Based Image Recognition - a stab in PHP: http://web.archive.org/web/20120309034643/http://www.searchlores.org/finn_cbir_1.htm
- A Not-so-slow JavaScript Face Detector: http://liuliu.me/ccv/js/nss/
- Face Detection in JavaScript via HTML5 Canvas: https://github.com/neave/face-detection
If anyone knows others, please feel free to add here to make this list as comprehensive as possible.
UPDATE (2013-08-20): Found this article the other day and thought I should add it here, though not sure how many projects listed there are still active: http://blog.mashape.com/post/53379410412/list-of-40-face-detection-recognition-apis