Microsoft facial recognition, who is able to make it work?

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cool!! How?!?

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Then goto API reference (i think the url has my apikey in so cant give direct link)
There is an open testing api console button there

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How what? How i did the automation? If so, its a copy paste from the component instructions here, i just added an action to trigger my study light.

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Also note, i have already exceeded my quota during testing :smile:

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I also used the below to check the group training status:

curl -v -X GET “https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/persongroups/[groupname]/training” -H “Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: [apikey]”

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A bit complicated to me, but I try. I opened the page, do I have to fill in the bottom with a link to my images (instead of 1.jpg)? If yes where to associate my name … ?

POST https://westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/face/v1.0/detect?returnFaceId=true&returnFaceLandmarks=false HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Host: westus.api.cognitive.microsoft.com

{
    "url":"http://example.com/1.jpg"
}
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you are in the section to upload the face. I didnt do this, i use HA and my camera to capture my face. That worked ok for me. But i guess, yes, if you uploaded a pic somewhere that it could access it you could change the url and submit it to upload the picture.

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Which the
Face
Face list
Person
Person group

??

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@CommonBlob any other advice? successfully uploaded an image and trained via the service api. still seeing “known_faces: [object Object]” for the image processor

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Are you seeing requests in the Azure portal? (Portal.azure.com)

Are you seeing you in the face API section of HA. I think you can do some commands with the API to query what it has. As I said earlier, the bits that failed for me was the group training.

It didn’t pick my face every time either, but it was dark and I may need it to retrain my face.

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You need to get the group created first
Then the person you want to add
Then add the picture
Then train the group

Ha did the first 3 steps ok for me, but the final step I did in the API console as it was erroring in ha.

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Damn. Still no luck. I’m able to successfully train via the API console but am still seeing this:

image_processing.microsoftface_foscam unknown
friendly_name: MicrosoftFace foscam
known_faces: [object Object]
total_faces: 0

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Strange. I’m also using a foscam, not that this probably makes much difference.

So you have a group, you see yourself on the ha dashboard with an ID, and you trained the group. That should be it. Any thing in your ha logs?

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@CommonBlob ah! yeah, getting a 401 error for the camera. not sure how to resolve that, though. it’s displaying fine on the dashboard…

EDIT: reboot resolved that. didn’t fix anything. :expressionless:

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Capture your face again, and check the HA log after you’ve done it. You should get a success message. If you get a “I couldn’t find a face” or something, it didn’t quite work.

After you have recaptured your face, run a train group again. See if that makes any difference.

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I have a problem, not totally related to the component, but important.

The camera is positioned at the entrance; when the door opens lot of lights comes from the outside, and the camera does not adjust quickly to the change of light. Basically all the faces are “dark”.

I suppose many are in the same situation as me: cameras in entrance, and when you open the door there is much more light coming in the entrance room. How do you solve this?

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I guess you could add an IR light beside the camera, it could be trigger by movement seen by the camera, of with another sensor…

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Its seems to be rather unreliable. I have got it working…but it doesnt fire half the time and now ive moved my camera to my lobby its only detected me once. I may dump the config and retrain it all again.

And yes to claudio, channging between IR and not isnt too quick on my camera either so it might be a problem for detection. Each camera copes differently though.

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Honestly I think it is a bad idea to use Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc. face recognition.
There is already a great python library called OpenVC which supports face recognition with a few lines of code - and the best, no data leave your computer.

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I’m much prefer that too. Have you got openvc wo king with HA?