Build a simple face detection web app
Add cognitive computing capabilities with AlchemyAPI
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Date archived: May 13, 2019 | Last updated: October 08, 2015|First published: July 31, 2015
Develop a simple application in PHP to use the powerful cognitive computing features of the AlchemyAPI service on IBM Bluemix. The app demonstrates how the face detection functions of the AlchemyAPI service can: study images and find faces, identify the gender, estimate the age, and often identify the specific person. You don't need to know anything about cognitive computing or deep learning algorithms to develop the cognitive app on Bluemix with only a few lines of code in this step-by-step example.
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