Azure Cognitive Services: Exploring Cognitive Vision

The service provides algorithms, exposed as REST-based web service calls, to detect, verify, identify, and analyze faces. The service can provide face matching, face attributes, and characteristic analysis. The API also has capabilities for Face identification and recognition. This service also provides face-specific: landmarks(nose, eyes) & attributes (skin color, age, gender). Face Detection API: The face detection API provides information about detected faces in an image but isn't designed to identify or recognize a specific face.