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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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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Face identification
Search and identify faces. Tag people and groups with user-provided data and then search those for a match with previously unseen faces.
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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