Show HN: FaceMaze – the missing web interface for accurate face detection

facemaze.io

8 points·matylla··5 comments

Hello HN,

Yesterday I launched a simple, yet very effective tool for online face detection, cropping and filtering. The idea is very simple - upload as many images as you like and FaceMaze will give you back all the faces cropped from those input images. You can control padding, border radius and output image format.

FaceMaze rides on top of Pixaven's [1] infrastructure and, at its very core, uses Apple's Vison framework to do all the heavy lifting. The accuracy of this is not as flawless as for example Tencent's DSFD that will give you back even face reflections on flat surfaces but it's really good enough for everyday usage.

I am not aware of any other free and unlimited web interfaces for face detection hence the title of this Show HN post.

[1]: https://www.pixaven.com [2]: https://github.com/TencentYoutuResearch/FaceDetection-DSFD

I'm concerned about the privacy of this. Care to explain how you handle user uploads?

Sure thing. Master images (user uploads) are deleted immediately after the processing is done (detection and cropping). Cropped faces are removed one hour after the upload so that you have time to download them back.

looks pretty accurate to me. As you said - good enough for everyday usage.

Very cool! :)

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