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		ansgri on July 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Face.com API shutting down AFAIK, Face.com provides face recognition, not only detection. They've presented their approach at YaC'2011 here in Moscow, and it is quite sophisticated. Not VJ at all.

PanMan on July 7, 2012 | [–]

Agreed, but for some (many) projects face detection is enough. For example all the "put a hat on your pictures" apps.

ansgri on July 8, 2012 | | [–]

Then of course use OpenCV. Their face detector is very good.

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