Any library for face recognition in JavaScript? [closed]

Question

I would like to know if someone know how to recognize a face using just JavaScript. I've heard of OpenCV and relatives but I want to process the face recognition at the client side (web app).

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Currently there is no pure JavaScript library performing face recognition. Real time face detection however is possible using one of the following libraries:

• For face and face element detection as well as object detection in general, you could use js-objectdetect or tracking.js which include ports of the OpenCV object detector based on Haar-like features. Also consult this performance comparison chart for ten popular JavaScript face detection libraries.
  
  

• The very first face detection algorithm on the web found in ccv also deserves a mention. Its SURF classifier is fast but not very reliable.

• The headtrackr library used for face tracking might also be of interest since it implements the camshift algorithm found in OpenCV. Also have a look at clmtrackr of the same author.

Answer 2

If you are looking to recognize where a face is in an image, as opposed to matching faces across multiple images, there is actually a library that does this in conjunction with HTML canvass.

There is a demo on the developers site here. You can also download the source on github.

In my test's the performance was decent - but not blazing.