What is Face API?
Learn how Azure Face API enables facial analysis by detecting faces and their features such as age, gender, and emotions. Understand how to verify identities and group similar faces. Gain practical skills to create and configure the Face API resource in Azure for future lessons.
Introduction
The Azure Face API service provides the facial analysis functionality. The service can help to detect, recognize, and analyze the faces present in an image. Facial recognition and analysis are important aspects in various applications like identity verification, blurring the faces for privacy reasons, and controlling devices using facial expressions, and so on.
The Azure Face service can help us to perform the below operations:
- Detect faces with facial expressions and facial features like hair, eyes, head pose, and so on.
- Verify identity
- Group similar faces
Let’s discuss these one by one.
Detecting faces
The Face service can identify all the faces present in the image. It can also identify features related to each of the faces as mentioned below:
- The age of the person as per the face identified.