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Face verification

Check the likelihood that two faces belong to the same person. The API will return a confidence score about how likely it is that the two faces belong to one person.

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Verification result: The two faces belong to the same person. Confidence is 0.7349.

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Face detection

Detect one or more human faces in an image and get back face rectangles for where in the image the faces are, along with face attributes which contain machine learning-based predictions of facial features. The face attribute features available are: Age, Emotion, Gender, Pose, Smile, and Facial Hair along with 27 landmarks for each face in the image.

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Gender female
Age 24
Glasses ReadingGlasses
Emotion Happiness 
Detection result:
JSON:
 [
  {
    "faceId": "2c92d9ec-92b9-4a21-9520-eda82d3245ad",
    "faceRectangle": {
      "top": 128,
      "left": 459,
      "width": 224,
      "height": 224
    },
    "faceAttributes": {
      "hair": {
        "bald": 0.1,
        "invisible": false,
        "hairColor": [
          {
            "color": "brown",
            "confidence": 0.99
          },
          {
            "color": "black",
            "confidence": 0.57
          },
          {
            "color": "red",
            "confidence": 0.36
          },
          {
            "color": "blond",
            "confidence": 0.34
          },
          {
            "color": "gray",
            "confidence": 0.15
          },
          {
            "color": "other",
            "confidence": 0.13
          }
        ]
      },
      "smile": 1.0,
      "headPose": {
        "pitch": 0.0,
        "roll": -16.9,
        "yaw": 16.7
      },
      "gender": "female",
      "age": 24.0,
      "facialHair": {
        "moustache": 0.0,
        "beard": 0.0,
        "sideburns": 0.0
      },
      "glasses": "ReadingGlasses",
      "makeup": {
        "eyeMakeup": true,
        "lipMakeup": true
      },
      "emotion": {
        "anger": 0.0,
        "contempt": 0.0,
        "disgust": 0.0,
        "fear": 0.0,
        "happiness": 1.0,
        "neutral": 0.0,
        "sadness": 0.0,
        "surprise": 0.0
      },
      "occlusion": {
        "foreheadOccluded": false,
        "eyeOccluded": false,
        "mouthOccluded": false
      },
      "accessories": [
        {
          "type": "glasses",
          "confidence": 1.0
        }
      ],
      "blur": {
        "blurLevel": "low",
        "value": 0.0
      },
      "exposure": {
        "exposureLevel": "goodExposure",
        "value": 0.48
      },
      "noise": {
        "noiseLevel": "low",
        "value": 0.0
      }
    },
    "faceLandmarks": {
      "pupilLeft": {
        "x": 504.8,
        "y": 206.8
      },
      "pupilRight": {
        "x": 602.5,
        "y": 178.4
      },
      "noseTip": {
        "x": 593.5,
        "y": 247.3
      },
      "mouthLeft": {
        "x": 529.8,
        "y": 300.5
      },
      "mouthRight": {
        "x": 626.0,
        "y": 277.3
      },
      "eyebrowLeftOuter": {
        "x": 461.0,
        "y": 186.8
      },
      "eyebrowLeftInner": {
        "x": 541.9,
        "y": 178.9
      },
      "eyeLeftOuter": {
        "x": 490.9,
        "y": 209.0
      },
      "eyeLeftTop": {
        "x": 509.1,
        "y": 199.5
      },
      "eyeLeftBottom": {
        "x": 509.3,
        "y": 213.9
      },
      "eyeLeftInner": {
        "x": 529.0,
        "y": 205.0
      },
      "eyebrowRightInner": {
        "x": 579.2,
        "y": 169.2
      },
      "eyebrowRightOuter": {
        "x": 633.0,
        "y": 136.4
      },
      "eyeRightInner": {
        "x": 590.5,
        "y": 184.5
      },
      "eyeRightTop": {
        "x": 604.2,
        "y": 171.5
      },
      "eyeRightBottom": {
        "x": 608.4,
        "y": 184.0
      },
      "eyeRightOuter": {
        "x": 623.8,
        "y": 173.7
      },
      "noseRootLeft": {
        "x": 549.8,
        "y": 200.3
      },
      "noseRootRight": {
        "x": 580.7,
        "y": 192.3
      },
      "noseLeftAlarTop": {
        "x": 557.2,
        "y": 234.6
      },
      "noseRightAlarTop": {
        "x": 603.2,
        "y": 225.1
      },
      "noseLeftAlarOutTip": {
        "x": 545.4,
        "y": 255.5
      },
      "noseRightAlarOutTip": {
        "x": 615.9,
        "y": 239.5
      },
      "upperLipTop": {
        "x": 591.1,
        "y": 278.4
      },
      "upperLipBottom": {
        "x": 593.2,
        "y": 288.7
      },
      "underLipTop": {
        "x": 597.1,
        "y": 308.0
      },
      "underLipBottom": {
        "x": 600.3,
        "y": 324.8
      }
    }
  }
]

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Emotion recognition

The Face API now integrates emotion recognition, returning the confidence across a set of emotions for each face in the image such as anger, contempt, disgust, fear, happiness, neutral, sadness, and surprise. These emotions are understood to be cross-culturally and universally communicated with particular facial expressions.

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Anger 0.00001
Contempt 0.00012
Disgust 0.00003
Fear 0.00059
Happiness 0.06631
Neutral 0.00555
Sadness 0.00001
Surprise 0.92739 
Detection result:
1 faces detected

 JSON:
 [
  {
    "faceRectangle": {
      "top": 141,
      "left": 130,
      "width": 162,
      "height": 162
    },
    "scores": {
      "anger": 9.29041E-06,
      "contempt": 0.000118981574,
      "disgust": 3.15619363E-05,
      "fear": 0.000589638,
      "happiness": 0.06630674,
      "neutral": 0.00555004273,
      "sadness": 7.44669524E-06,
      "surprise": 0.9273863
    }
  }
]

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Face identification

Face API enables you to search, identify, and match faces in your private repository of up to 1 million people.

Similar face search

Easily find similar-looking faces. Given a collection of faces and a new face as a query, this API will return a collection of similar faces.

Face grouping

Organize many unidentified faces together into groups, based on their visual similarity.

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