face-recognition-poc

I was asked to check how difficult it will be to make a simple application for face recognition. And this is the PoC of that research.

Libraries

I'm using tracking.js library for face detection and Microsoft Cognitive-Services Face API for face recognition. To use Face API you have to register and generate API key. It is not a problem because API is free for 30K calls per month :-).

Scala and Spring boot are used as a backend server

How to run

Start www frontend application

# Create configuration with ms-face-api key

cat <<EOF > application-prod.yaml
projectOxford:
  subscriptionKey: "XXXXXXX"
EOF

# And run application
SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE="prod" ./gradlew run

Open http://localhost:8080/ in your favorite web browser

How to run in local mode

Start www frontend application with local configuration

SPRING_PROFILES_ACTIVE="local" ./gradlew run

Local testing will give you mocked ms-face-api, so you can work even without ms-face-api account. ms-face-api will return ok-fail1-fail2-...

Start watch js files and update them after changes

# run watch using gradle
./gradlew npmWatch

# or you can run watch using npm
npm run watch

How to run in SSL

Application in production environment will need SSL configuration.

• https://www.drissamri.be/blog/java/enable-https-in-spring-boot/