From the course: Deep Learning: Face Recognition
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Tools for face recognition - Python Tutorial
From the course: Deep Learning: Face Recognition
Tools for face recognition
- [Instructor] Several large vendors provide face recognition APIs that you can use over the internet for a small fee. They all work similar ways and provide similar features, but they are trained with different data sets. That means that their accuracy may be better or worse, depending on your specific application. Some commonly used services are Amazon Rekognition and Microsoft Azure Face API. In addition to doing facial recognition, both services offer extra features, like detecting emotions, guessing a person's age, or tracking the motion of a person within a video clip. While commercial options are great in many cases, they require an internet connection to use, and you have to pay a small fee each time you use them. Also, using those services requires uploading all your face data to a third-party, since the face recognition happens on their computers in the cloud. For some applications, it's better to be able to do face recognition without a data connection and without having to…
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