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Editions and Platforms#

FaceEngine supports multiple platforms and comes in two editions: the frontend edition (or FE for short) and the complete edition. Supported software and hardware platforms differ depending on editions.

The Frontend edition is intended for lightweight software that does not need to implement searching functions. For example, these could be:

  • Face detection applications that take a picture of the user and send it to a server for processing, such as verification;

  • Face alignment applications, that only need the knowledge about head pose and facial shape;

  • Simple ad-hoc analytics solutions like age & gender recognition for context-aware advertising;

  • And so on.

The complete edition contains all the features of the frontend edition but adds face verification and identification features. That said, the complete edition is a more of a backend or server-oriented software. Still, it can run not only on powerful servers, but on ordinary PCs and even mobile devices as well.

This document covers the entire set of implemented features, that is - the complete edition. In the distribution section you can find a feature matrix that shows what exact algorithms are implemented in each edition and what platforms it supports.

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