GuestPost:Learning and Building your own face recognition apps

Face.com has opened up APIs  that you can integrate  face detection and recognition technology with your apps and services. Whether you're looking to add tagging for photos, cool sci-fi experiences, or creative flavors to your apps, face.com're here to help.

In a nutshell:

• face.com offers services for detecting, recognizing, and tagging faces in any photo, through our REST API
• Face.com's services are offered for FREE with rate limits. Whitelisting is available.
• You can tag and recognize users from Facebook or Twitter. Alternatively, you can train index with your own set of users in a private namespace.
• Saving Facebook and Twitter tags improves recognition for you and others, while maintaining your users' privacy.
• face.com process photos from anywhere, so you can mix and match photo sources with user IDs, which could enable you to, say, recognize Facebook users in Flickr photos...

Privacy

When it comes to privacy face.com plays nice, and  uses Facebook/Twitter credentials to enforce friendly use where relevant. By "friendly" it means that you can only tag or recognize your friends in social networks. he expects you to respect users' privacy - if you don't face.com will block your account without notice. Not sure if your use is okay? Check out our Terms of Use, shoot us a question on the forum, or contact us at privacy@face.com.