Facial Recognition | Microsoft Azure

Deliver low-friction, state-of-the-art facial recognition

Embed facial recognition into your apps for a seamless and highly secured user experience. No machine learning expertise is required. Features include: face detection that perceives faces and attributes in an image; person identification that matches an individual in your private repository of up to 1 million people; perceived emotion recognition that detects a range of facial expressions like happiness, contempt, neutrality, and fear; and recognition and grouping of similar faces in images.

Advanced facial recognition

Recognize faces according to diverse attributes.

Easy-to-use

Add facial recognition to your apps—all through a single API call.

Flexible deployment

Run Face in the cloud or on the edge in containers.

Built-in security

Rely on enterprise-grade security and privacy applied to both your data and any trained models.

Apply facial recognition for a range of scenarios

Detect, identify, and analyze faces in images and videos. Build on top of this technology to support various scenarios—for example, authenticate people for access, count people in a space for crowd control, or garner crowd insights for media campaigns.

See it in action

Face detection

Detect one or more human faces along with attributes such as: age, emotion, pose, smile, and facial hair, including 27 landmarks for each face in the image.

Detection result:
detection_02
JSON:
 [
  {
    "faceId": "b973881f-eb00-4830-9acb-5d86dd5a4904",
    "faceRectangle": {
      "top": 76,
      "left": 446,
      "width": 226,
      "height": 284
    },
    "faceAttributes": null,
    "faceLandmarks": null
  }
]

Detection Model:

Face verification

Check the likelihood that two faces belong to the same person and receive a confidence score.