"While very good algorithms exist ... or are not fast enough to run in real time."
As a research scientist at a company whose main product is face recognition software I have to disagree with this part of the statement.
As a research scientist at a company whose main product is face recognition software I have to disagree with this part of the statement.
What I mean is this is a client-side javascript library, so it is meant to work in the browser on who knows how powerful hardware.
There may be facial recognition libraries that work very well in real time, but how powerful of hardware is required?
And the other big question, are they proprietary algorithms or open-source?