# Facial Recognition

| Name                       | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | Cost                                              | Tool Review and Guide                                                                                                                                                                                          |
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| Amazon Rekognition         | Check how similar two faces are                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark> | <p><sub><em>Guide not available</em></sub></p><p><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/"><mark style="background-color:blue;"><https://aws.amazon.com/rekognition/></mark></a></p>                       |
| Azure AI Video Indexer     | AI video tool for facial detection and other types of insights.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 | <mark style="background-color:red;">Paid</mark>   | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/azure-ai-video-indexer>                                                                                                                                  |
| Face Comparison by ToolPie | Compares two human face photos to determine similarity.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark> | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/face-comparison-toolpie>                                                                                                                                 |
| FaceCheck.ID               | A facial recognition search engine that tries to find photos of people that look similar to a person of interest.                                                                                                                                                                                                                               | <mark style="background-color:red;">Paid</mark>   | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/facecheck.id>                                                                                                                                            |
| GFPGAN                     | Practical face restoration algorithm for *old photos* or *AI-generated faces*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark> | <p><sub><em>Guide not available</em></sub></p><p><a href="https://replicate.com/tencentarc/gfpgan"><mark style="background-color:blue;"><https://replicate.com/tencentarc/gfpgan></mark></a></p>               |
| PimEyes                    | An AI-powered facial recognition reverse image search tool.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | <mark style="background-color:red;">Paid</mark>   | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/pimeyes>                                                                                                                                                 |
| Search4Faces               | Upload the picture of a face and find pictures of similar looking people on VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, TikTok and Clubhouse.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark> | <https://bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more/all-tools/search4faces>                                                                                                                                            |
| VFF                        | VGG Face Finder (VFF) Engine Visual Geometry Group and released under the BSD-2 clause. VFF is a web application that serves as a web engine to perform searches for faces over an user-defined image dataset. It is based on the original application created by VGG to perform visual searchers over a large dataset of images from BBC News. | <mark style="background-color:green;">Free</mark> | <p><sub><em>Guide not available</em></sub></p><p><a href="https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/vff/"><mark style="background-color:blue;"><https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/software/vff/></mark></a></p> |