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
- this library provide functionalty
- 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.
