[Video Tutorial] - Facial Recognition with Watson and Python

in #programming9 years ago

This is the third tutorial in my series of Visual Recognition with IBM Watson and Python. In this video I show you how to do face detection and facial recognition calling the Watson API in Python, in few simple lines of interactive code.

I am still perplexed of the convenience and easiness of it all, given that just a few years ago you had to write hundreds, if not thousands, of lines of code for the same purpose.

In this video I choose a celebrity image to run Watson's recognition capabilities, a picture of Jason Statham. Here's how it went:

If you need help setting up Python and/or IBM Watson, please let me know.


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