Face.com Free Detect Faces in Pictures Alternative (signup.face-alt.org)

8 points by roblesjm 14y ago ↗ HN

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- Only detect faces - OpenCV implementation HaarClassifierCascade (initial) - REST service - NO Business Model (PayPal donate for maintenance) - GPL code in GitHub - Feel free to parcipate

aeurielesn 14y ago ↗

- Typo: "patners"

pooriaazimi 14y ago ↗

I don't get the title... I know what it is (it was mentioned on the other topic about face.com shutting down free API), but the title of this submission doesn't make any sense to me. I read it maybe five times and still can't understand what it means.

droob 14y ago ↗

I've been staring at it for a while and the best I can do is: 'Face.com: Free "Detect Faces in Pictures" Alternative', which is still a barely-syntactical Markov chain of press release words.

roblesjm 14y ago ↗

+1, but I can't change it now

roblesjm 14y ago ↗

My idea is launch a SaaS face detection like face.com forking the OpenCV code initially. better now?

JWhiteaker 14y ago ↗

Is this just for face detection or for face recognition as well?

Face detection is a pretty much solved problem IMO and running OpenCV locally is a simple enough solution.

What I will miss about face.com is the face recognition. It was state of the art, lightning fast, and free. The eigenfaces implementation in OpenCV doesn't even come close.