samedyalnizz / facerecognitionbrain-api

[BACKEND] Lets a user recognize a face in an image

facerecognitionbrain-api

Description

Users can insert an image-url and check if a face is in their picture. If a face is detected, it will be surrounded by a blue box. This project was used as a learning project.

Screenshot

This is the Backend

You can find the Frontend here: https://github.com/SamedYalnizz/facerecognitionbrain

Learned Concepts

• Node

• express.js
• nodemon
• body-parser
• postman.com
• filesystem
• modules with node
• bcrypt
• cors
• relational databases (postgresql)
• knex.js
• database transaction
• API keys to backend for security reasons
• environmental variables
• Image Recognition API usage (https://www.clarifai.com/)
• Deployment to heroku

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Run npm install
3. Run npm start
4. You must add your own API key in the controllers/image.js to connect to Clarifai API (https://www.clarifai.com/) *** Make sure you are using postgresql for this project

Acknowledgment

This project was done as part of the Udemy Zero To Mastery Course by Andrei Neagoie

Project status

As this project was done for learning purposes only. It is unlikely that further development will take place in the future.