I'm working on a project and wanted to use the web API to automatically detect faces in photos. I was hoping I'd be able to pre- train Picasa Web Albums to know what a certain set of people look like and then use the Web API to guess who people are in new photos, uploaded, queried for face detection, then examined for the results.
The more I look through the Web API, the less promising it looks. a) I don't think Web Albums API learns faces or makes guesses the way the desktop Picasa software does nor does it have an executable function for "guessFaces()" or similar b) I'm not even sure the Web API has a function for retrieving who is tagged in a certain photo even when they are definitively tagged manually, and although I find it hard to believe the Web API wouldn't return a feed with a structure similar to the following pseudocode to accommodate that... <photo> ... photo data... <facetag> ... rectangle parameters... ... person tagged... </facetag> ... more facetags... </photo> ... I'm not finding it. So two questions: 1. Am I incorrect with either (a) or (b) above? 2. If I'm correct about being unable to do face recognition via the Web API, does the desktop software have its own API for accessing its face recognition routines? Thanks in advance. And thanks to the engineers who work on Picasa. Very cool stuff. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
