Facial recognition/detection PHP or software for photo and video galleries

Question

I have a very large photo gallery with thousands of similar people, objects, locations, things. The majority of the people in the photos have their own user accounts and ava

Answer 1

If you want to do it real-time in PHP, there is a way. Check out the solution presented here: it was mentioned on News.YC a month or two ago.

Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, as you mention, seems to have some pretty good technology, and they have an SDK available: http://www.pittpatt.com/products/ftr_sdk/sdk_users_guide.html. They also have a web demo, so if you wanted to be sneaky, you could probably hack something up that would just feed images into their demo. They'd probably stop you eventually, though - better to contact them directly.

Answer 2

Check out PicsMatch.com! I've been quite pleased with it, but even the simplest browsing tacks are quite slow. Well worth the low price.

Answer 3

Check out face.com. They opened up their API yesterday.

Note: Face.com is no longer offering their API. (thanks facebook...)