Face recognition in android using microsoft face API's

                            

Microsoft has given various API's for object recognition, extract the rich information from an image and process the visual data. Gives back image description, tagging, color, category and level of confidence. Some the services given by MicroSoft for object detection are.

1.  Analyse an image

2. Read text in an image

3. Preview Handwritten text from an image

4. Recognise the celebrities and landmarks

5. Analyse the video near in real time

6. Generate a thumbnail. 

Lets start learning some little deep into the above concept and how to use them, taking a sample android app.
Here is the sample app screen shot(ss)

                    
For sample app code please visit this here

Step to set up above app are

1. Download code from link

2. Click here and create a Microsoft azure account or login with Linkedin 

3. Click on get API key for  Computer vision API

4. Once you successfully enabled the API, on dashboard of azure account
    user would be able see the following information
 
   End point : http.....
   Key 1 : **********************
   Key 2 : **********************

Put the subscription inside the string file in android studio, and run the app.

Android app for FACE RECOGNITION

               

To set up the face recognition app, please follow the following steps

1 . Download the code from link