Face APIs
Microsoft's state-of-the-art cloud-based face algorithms to detect and recognize human faces in images.
> **Note:** This is deprecated, latest version is available [here](https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/face-api).
Face APIs provide state-of-the-art algorithms to process face images, like face detection with gender and age prediction, recognition, alignment and other application level features.
##Face detection with attributes extraction##
You will get the detected faces with rectangles indicating the face positions and a series of face related attributes, include landmarks, pose, gender and age by giving an image.
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##Face Verification##
Given two detected faces, you will get result indicates whether the two requested faces belong to the same person.
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## Face Grouping ##
Provide service a set of unknown faces, it will automatically divide them into several groups based on similarity.
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## Face Identification ##
You can use Face Identification to recognize persons' identities.
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[1]: https://az712634.vo.msecnd.net/mlapis/v1/media/FaceDetection.png
[2]: https://az712634.vo.msecnd.net/mlapis/v1/media/FaceVerification.png
[3]: https://az712634.vo.msecnd.net/mlapis/v1/media/FaceGrouping.png
[4]: https://az712634.vo.msecnd.net/mlapis/v1/media/SimilarFaceSearching.png