Face Detection with Firebase ML Kit on Android

With ML Kit's face detection API, you can detect faces in an image, identify key facial features, and get the contours of detected faces. In this post, you'll learn face detection with Firebase ML Kit on Android With face detection, you can get the information you need to perform tasks like embellishing selfies and portraits, or generating avatars from a user's photo. Because ML Kit can perform face detection in real time, you can use it in applications like video chat or games that respond to the player's expressions. See the ML Kit quickstart sample on GitHub for an example of this API in use. To do so, add the following declaration to your app's AndroidManifest.xml