Is Google MLKit able to recognize the same face?

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I'm looking about implementing MLKit face recognition library in my Android App. The only thing that I can't understand is if it's possible and how can I compare two photos and detect if they are the same person. I've read these guides:

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Hi, have you found a good alternative that actually help in comparing two faces reliably? — Shirane85, Jan 14 '23 at 14:26
Hi, at that time I used Amazon Rekognition and it worked well. Check it out: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/compare-faces-console.html — Davide Bulbarelli, Jan 15 '23 at 21:13
I think AWS gives you some free credit as a new user but you have to insert the credit card anyway and after you spend your free credits you will have to pay — Davide Bulbarelli, Jan 25 '23 at 19:37

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 17 '18 at 15:03

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ML Kit detects face contours, but does not recognize faces. So it can't determine whether two detected faces are of the same person.

answered Dec 17 '18 at 15:03

Frank van Puffelen

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Thanks, do you know any other libs that can help me with face comparison for Android? – Davide Bulbarelli Dec 17 '18 at 15:08
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That's more a topic for a Google search than for a Stack Overflow question (where technology recommendations are off-topic). But when I did a quick search I found an interesting (if a bit old) [comparison between cloud based vision APIs](https://www.kairos.com/blog/face-recognition-kairos-vs-microsoft-vs-google-vs-amazon-vs-opencv). – Frank van Puffelen Dec 17 '18 at 15:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '21 at 09:23

MLKit is not able to, and this seems to be a feature that is many years away from MLKit. You'd have to use face recognition, and there are solution for on-device and in the cloud.

The best repo I found for on-device face recognition, primarily because it is unsupervised (it doesn't require users to have trained data (labels for each person to be detected)): https://github.com/njordsir/Clustering-faces-android

Is Google MLKit able to recognize the same face?

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