Face

Embed powerful facial recognition capabilities into your applications for seamless, secure, and trustworthy user experiences—no machine learning expertise required. Core Features include:

• Face Detection: Accurately detect faces and extract detailed facial attributes from images.
• Face Liveness Detection: Protect your applications from spoofing and identity fraud by verifying real user presence through robust, real-time face liveness detection.
• Face Verification: Verify if two faces belong to the same individual.
• Face Identification: Identify individuals by matching faces against your private repository containing up to 1 million people.
• Face Grouping: Recognize and group similar faces across images.

Limited access

Microsoft facial recognition services are Limited Access in order to help prevent the misuse of the services in accordance with our AI Principles and facial recognition principles.

To use face verification, identification, grouping and liveness detection requires to register for access by submitting a registration form. The Face Detection operation is available without registration.

Learn More about Limited Access to Face API.