Category: artificial-intelligence

Face detection is often used interchangeably with facial recognition, but the two terms actually have two different definitions. Face detection is a specific function that finds and identifies human faces in images or videos, while facial recognition is a method of identifying or verifying the identity of an individual from their face.

Starting off, we will install the Maven SDK by adding a reference to the repository in pom.xml: Next, we’re going to add a reference to the dependency: Now that we’ve installed the package, we can move on to calling the face detection function with the following code: The returned result will indicate how many faces were identified, and which quadrant of the photo they’re in. To ensure that the result is efficient and accurate, these parameters will need to be met: In conclusion, we hope you found the tutorial helpful and easy to follow. If you’d like to delve further into the facial recognition journey, we have several other functions that may interest you, such as face detection with landmarks, age detection, face cropping, and more!

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