About face.com and Face Recognition

Face.com is a technology company operating the leading face recognition platform. We focus on enabling awesome social experience for people in images, and our platform is built to support web and mobile services, directly off the cloud. Through our apps and API services, we scan billions of photos monthly, and to date helped tag hundreds of millions of faces. Our technology helps people to tag their own photos quickly and easily, and discover photos of themselves and their friends that they never knew existed. We also offer a platform for developers and publishers to automatically detect and recognize faces in photos; this is a robust, free, and privacy-aware REST API to to allow third-party developers offering instant integration to social networks, photo sharing sites, search engines, and more. Developers can create their own original apps that leverage our facial recognition technology, algorithms, and access to tagged faces. You can find lots of information on our developer site.

Why do We Matter

Face.com builds facial recognition software that is not only highly accurate, but also works efficiently at web-scale. Our facial recognition analytics are able to identify faces well, despite difficult circumstances like poor lighting, poor focus, subjects wearing eyeglasses, facial hair, and even Halloween costumes. Face recognition isn’t just for the government or in the movies – you can use it yourself in all kinds of ways, from tagging photos to social networking. Try it out for yourself – some of our apps for the Facebook platform are below. We think you’ll be impressed by how accurate our face recognition technology is, and we’d love to hear from you and get your opinion. For more on face.com, check out our FAQ.

Face.com sample applications

Photo Tagger lets you choose albums (old or new), or any of your friends' albums to scan for faces. Photo Tagger then batches the people it finds into groups (screenshot) and suggests tags for these people (screenshot). By finding people for you, and batching them together Photo Tagger lets you tag your albums in a fraction of the time it would normally take.

Celebrityfindr scans Twitter and looks for photos of celebrities that have posted publicly. It doesn't matter if they're candid shots of your favorite stars from home grown paparazzi, or professional red-carpet snapshots - they are all discovered every day by comparing Twitter photos against a database of famous actors and actresses using face recognition software from Face.com.