How to detect eyes in a photo in PHP
3 min readAug 2, 2019
Today’s post looks at how to use our Image Recognition API to identify facial features, including eyes, in a photograph and return their locations.
Let’s begin by adding the API to our library:
"require": {
"cloudmersive/cloudmersive_imagerecognition_api_client": "^1.4",
}The only thing left to do is call faceLocateWithLandmarks:
<?php
require_once(__DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php');// Configure API key authorization: Apikey
$config = Swagger\Client\Configuration::getDefaultConfiguration()->setApiKey('Apikey', 'YOUR_API_KEY');$apiInstance = new Swagger\Client\Api\FaceApi(
new GuzzleHttp\Client(),
$config
);
$image_file = "/path/to/file"; // \SplFileObject | Image file to perform the operation on. Common file formats such as PNG, JPEG are supported.try {
$result = $apiInstance->faceLocateWithLandmarks($image_file);
print_r($result);
} catch (Exception $e) {
echo 'Exception when calling FaceApi->faceLocateWithLandmarks: ', $e->getMessage(), PHP_EOL;
}
?>
Here is an example result:
{
"ErrorDetails": null,
"Successful": true,
"Faces": [
{
"LeftEyebrow": [
{
"X": 610,
"Y": 287
},
{
"X": 637,
"Y": 271
},
{
"X": 669,
"Y": 266
},
{
"X": 696,
"Y": 278
},
{
"X": 577,
"Y": 346
}
],
"RightEyebrow": [
null,
null,
null,
null,
null
],
"LeftEye": [
{
"X": 498,
"Y": 361
},
{
"X": 520,
"Y": 357
},
{
"X": 541,
"Y": 368
},
{
"X": 523,
"Y": 378
},
{
"X": 501,
"Y": 383
},
{
"X": 620,
"Y": 343
}
],
"RightEye": [
{
"X": 633,
"Y": 321
},
{
"X": 655,
"Y": 312
},
{
"X": 674,
"Y": 318
},
{
"X": 663,
"Y": 333
},
{
"X": 641,
"Y": 340
},
{
"X": 561,
"Y": 503
}
],
"BottomAndSidesOfFace": [
{
"X": 449,
"Y": 430
},
{
"X": 467,
"Y": 466
},
{
"X": 486,
"Y": 501
},
{
"X": 509,
"Y": 532
},
{
"X": 541,
"Y": 558
},
{
"X": 576,
"Y": 580
},
{
"X": 616,
"Y": 596
},
{
"X": 654,
"Y": 592
},
{
"X": 687,
"Y": 573
},
{
"X": 712,
"Y": 539
},
{
"X": 730,
"Y": 503
},
{
"X": 743,
"Y": 465
},
{
"X": 745,
"Y": 424
},
{
"X": 743,
"Y": 382
},
{
"X": 738,
"Y": 340
},
{
"X": 728,
"Y": 299
},
{
"X": 446,
"Y": 355
}
],
"NoseBridge": [
{
"X": 585,
"Y": 372
},
{
"X": 593,
"Y": 399
},
{
"X": 602,
"Y": 425
},
{
"X": 582,
"Y": 451
}
],
"NoseBottom": [
{
"X": 596,
"Y": 452
},
{
"X": 611,
"Y": 452
},
{
"X": 622,
"Y": 442
},
{
"X": 633,
"Y": 433
},
{
"X": 484,
"Y": 378
}
],
"LipsInnerOutline": [
{
"X": 607,
"Y": 503
},
{
"X": 624,
"Y": 499
},
{
"X": 639,
"Y": 493
},
{
"X": 674,
"Y": 474
},
{
"X": 643,
"Y": 493
},
{
"X": 627,
"Y": 500
},
{
"X": 610,
"Y": 503
}
],
"LipsOuterOutline": [
{
"X": 583,
"Y": 493
},
{
"X": 603,
"Y": 484
},
{
"X": 620,
"Y": 483
},
{
"X": 634,
"Y": 474
},
{
"X": 657,
"Y": 470
},
{
"X": 685,
"Y": 466
},
{
"X": 669,
"Y": 499
},
{
"X": 650,
"Y": 518
},
{
"X": 634,
"Y": 526
},
{
"X": 616,
"Y": 529
},
{
"X": 590,
"Y": 526
},
{
"X": 573,
"Y": 506
}
],
"LeftX": 439,
"TopY": 267,
"RightX": 749,
"BottomY": 577
}
],
"FaceCount": 1
}As you can see, we are returned vertex data for each facial feature along with the location.
