Face recognition research

Camera sensor type & library

• Facial Recognition APIs
  • http://blog.rapidapi.com/2017/11/10/top-10-facial-recognition-apis-of-2017/
  • https://www.kairos.com/blog/face-recognition-kairos-vs-microsoft-vs-google-vs-amazon-vs-opencv
  • https://konghq.com/blog/list-of-10-face-detection-recognition-apis/
• RGB
  • OpenFace (https://cmusatyalab.github.io/openface/) - using tensorflow
• Depth
  • Kinect, Xtion
  • Depth camera gets 3D coordinates from the pose of the camera
  • FaceFept3D (https://github.com/sergeytulyakov/FaceCept3D)
    • this library provide functionalty
      • Person-specific template creation
      • Extreme head pose estimation
      • Facial expression analysis

• IR Camera
  • Even in dark places, it looks like the picture below.

Service

• Window Hello face authentication
• iPhone Face ID - Face recognition in the dark using infrared, maybe similar depth
  • https://www.extremetech.com/mobile/255771-apple-iphone-x-truedepth-camera-works
  • Unlike existing 2D face recognition, 3D point cloud is used.
  • Using Face shape.