I don't personally know they are legit. All I can say is they haven't
gone wild with my credit card... yet. I learned about them here:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/following-facebooks-shut-down-of-face-coms-facial-recognition-api-lambda-labs-debuts-an-open-source-alternative/
I had the same concerns though :-)
Kevin
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hmmm... Lambdal wants my credit card information for me to be able to sign
> up for the free (low monthly use) facial recognition. Do you personally
> know that they are legit?
>
> -Wilhelmina
>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Kevin S. Clarke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> You might try:
>>
>> http://api.lambdal.com/
>>
>> Supposedly its API is the same as the old Face.com one. I haven't used
>> it myself.
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Kam Woods <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> > Not an API per se, but OpenCV face tagging with Python! Here's an old
>> > and hacky example...I bet there are better ones out there now.
>> >
>> >
>> http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/face-detection-in-static-images-with-python/
>> >
>> > Kam
>> >
>> > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke <[log in to unmask]>
>> wrote:
>> >> I used face.com 's facial recognition API, when it was available, to
>> do a
>> >> project where I tagged some people in a set of photos and then it
>> suggested
>> >> who unidentified people might be.
>> >>
>> >> I want to do something similar for a digitization project, but face.comwas
>> >> bought by Facebook, so no more API for me.
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone here know of an available API for recognizing and tagging
>> faces
>> >> in photos?
>> >>
>> >> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>>
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