I am using Microsoft's Face API. It requires to create a DB at their server. is it possible to use our own DB, rather than creating one at their end

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I am trying to use Microsoft's Face API, for facial recognition for my company employees. I see that you need to create a database in Microsoft's serverS.

Is there a way to use their API's on our company database (without creating another DB on their server? Also any changes you make to this DB will be taken care of.
If no, then how will you take care of the changes you want (I know that there are delete API calls as well, but will not it be cumbersome?)

No, they don't offer a self-hosted solution. – Maria Ines Parnisari Oct 01 '17 at 00:28 — Maria Ines Parnisari, Oct 01 '17 at 00:28
Ohkay. Thanks Maria. Can someone help me with this please ? – badcoder29 Oct 02 '17 at 03:20 — badcoder29, Oct 02 '17 at 03:20
There is nothing to do here, you have to use their servers – Maria Ines Parnisari Oct 03 '17 at 05:16 — Maria Ines Parnisari, Oct 03 '17 at 05:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 08 '17 at 18:49

I think you may have misunderstood how this API works. Whenever there is a change to your list of employees, the PersonGroup (a friendly name for the image classifier model), must be retrained in order for it to start recognizing the added faces and stop recognizing removed ones. So even if there was a way to store the model locally (which there isn't), you will still need to track add/removes and take the additional step of training.

I am using Microsoft's Face API. It requires to create a DB at their server. is it possible to use our own DB, rather than creating one at their end

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