The Network is the Computer: You can’t hide your face from the Cloud any more

I’ve been moving into Cloud-based services, and I’m so impressed with Microsoft’s Cognitive Services. For this I’ve integrated to a speech API and now integrating their face API. The service returns a JSON string which outlines parameters such as age, gender, glasses, and smile. Let’s try it on Theresa May [here]:

And David Cameron [here]:

and it detects Nicolia’s smile [here]:

And beards are detected [here]:

Here’s my basic code (you need to use your own key — YOUR KEY). With this we use an HTTP post to pass the URI for the image, and return the JSON string: