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JavaScript API for face detection and face recognition in the browser and nodejs with tensorflow.js

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2018-11-26 · latest 2025-09-20

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  1. …At least it's powered by a very tiny ML model that runs locally in the browser, powered by https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js > The face expression recognition model is lightweight, fast and provides reasonable accuracy. The…
    comment by Tiberium · 2025-09-20 · in I’m Not a Robot
  2. …faces (for later comparison against other faces) -- face recognition, try out: face-api.js https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js/
  3. …the author considered these two libraries for face detection: https://github.com/vladmandic/human & https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js , he chose "vladmandic/human".
  4. …EDIT: My mistake, you said it was in the library repo and there it was. For anyone who needs it - https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js
    comment by YourNewOverlord · 2020-03-16 · in Show HN: Simple Face Recognition Attendance System
  5. A lot of the good stuff seems to be coming from: https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js Results are poor, as expected. I think the author intends it as a joke. But the message is spot on.
    comment by tambourine_man · 2019-10-24 · in Stealing Ur Feelings