Want To Learn Some AI With JavaScript? Let's Do Facial Recognition!

Feeling left out of the AI/Machine Learning frenzy because you are a web developer? In just 30 minutes, go from some simple starter code to doing AI, with JavaScript, in the browser! We use face-api.js to detect faces in a live video feed, and then we can draw the points, a box around the face, check age, gender, and expression, and then try and match the face(s) to another face. With a few changes, you can do facial tracking, or advanced recognition! This isn't building AI models, it is implementing a library and is a great way to get some exposure to machine learning before moving on to TensorFlow and the more intense work. FaceAPI video (images only) - https://youtu.be/cGFKc-XRYKQ WebRTC Video - https://youtu.be/g42yNO_dxWQ Code Links: Starter code - https://github.com/robertbunch/face-api-js-starter Final Code - https://github.com/robertbunch/face-api-webcam face-api.js - https://github.com/justadudewhohacks/face-api.js Tensorflow - we don't use it, but here it is -https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs 0:00 - Introduction 0:22 - FaceAPI & Starter Code 5:14 - Video stream 8:22 - Setting up https (if stream fails) 12:33 - Load models & set canvas 16:02 - Facial Detection (finally!) 23:01 - Expressions and age/gender 27:13 - Facial Recognition