Process the Cloud Vision API response

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Process the Cloud Vision API response when faces are detected in an image.

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Java

Before trying this sample, follow the Java setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Java API reference documentation. 

/** Reads image {@code inputPath} and writes {@code outputPath} with {@code faces} outlined. */
private static void writeWithFaces(Path inputPath, Path outputPath, List<FaceAnnotation> faces)
    throws IOException {
  BufferedImage img = ImageIO.read(inputPath.toFile());
  annotateWithFaces(img, faces);
  ImageIO.write(img, "jpg", outputPath.toFile());
}

/** Annotates an image {@code img} with a polygon around each face in {@code faces}. */
public static void annotateWithFaces(BufferedImage img, List<FaceAnnotation> faces) {
  for (FaceAnnotation face : faces) {
    annotateWithFace(img, face);
  }
}

/** Annotates an image {@code img} with a polygon defined by {@code face}. */
private static void annotateWithFace(BufferedImage img, FaceAnnotation face) {
  Graphics2D gfx = img.createGraphics();
  Polygon poly = new Polygon();
  for (Vertex vertex : face.getFdBoundingPoly().getVertices()) {
    poly.addPoint(vertex.getX(), vertex.getY());
  }
  gfx.setStroke(new BasicStroke(5));
  gfx.setColor(new Color(0x00ff00));
  gfx.draw(poly);
}

Node.js

Before trying this sample, follow the Node.js setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Node.js API reference documentation. 

async function highlightFaces(inputFile, faces, outputFile, PImage) {
  // Open the original image
  const stream = fs.createReadStream(inputFile);
  let promise;
  if (inputFile.match(/\.jpg$/)) {
    promise = PImage.decodeJPEGFromStream(stream);
  } else if (inputFile.match(/\.png$/)) {
    promise = PImage.decodePNGFromStream(stream);
  } else {
    throw new Error(`Unknown filename extension ${inputFile}`);
  }
  const img = await promise;
  const context = img.getContext('2d');
  context.drawImage(img, 0, 0, img.width, img.height, 0, 0);

  // Now draw boxes around all the faces
  context.strokeStyle = 'rgba(0,255,0,0.8)';
  context.lineWidth = '5';

  faces.forEach(face => {
    context.beginPath();
    let origX = 0;
    let origY = 0;
    face.boundingPoly.vertices.forEach((bounds, i) => {
      if (i === 0) {
        origX = bounds.x;
        origY = bounds.y;
        context.moveTo(bounds.x, bounds.y);
      } else {
        context.lineTo(bounds.x, bounds.y);
      }
    });
    context.lineTo(origX, origY);
    context.stroke();
  });

  // Write the result to a file
  console.log(`Writing to file ${outputFile}`);
  const writeStream = fs.createWriteStream(outputFile);
  await PImage.encodePNGToStream(img, writeStream);
}

PHP

Before trying this sample, follow the PHP setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision PHP API reference documentation. 

# draw box around faces
if ($faces && $outFile) {
    $imageCreateFunc = [
        'png' => 'imagecreatefrompng',
        'gd' => 'imagecreatefromgd',
        'gif' => 'imagecreatefromgif',
        'jpg' => 'imagecreatefromjpeg',
        'jpeg' => 'imagecreatefromjpeg',
    ];
    $imageWriteFunc = [
        'png' => 'imagepng',
        'gd' => 'imagegd',
        'gif' => 'imagegif',
        'jpg' => 'imagejpeg',
        'jpeg' => 'imagejpeg',
    ];

    copy($path, $outFile);
    $ext = strtolower(pathinfo($path, PATHINFO_EXTENSION));
    if (!array_key_exists($ext, $imageCreateFunc)) {
        throw new \Exception('Unsupported image extension');
    }
    $outputImage = call_user_func($imageCreateFunc[$ext], $outFile);

    foreach ($faces as $face) {
        $vertices = $face->getBoundingPoly()->getVertices();
        if ($vertices) {
            $x1 = $vertices[0]->getX();
            $y1 = $vertices[0]->getY();
            $x2 = $vertices[2]->getX();
            $y2 = $vertices[2]->getY();
            imagerectangle($outputImage, $x1, $y1, $x2, $y2, 0x00ff00);
        }
    }

Python

Before trying this sample, follow the Python setup instructions in the Vision quickstart using client libraries. For more information, see the Vision Python API reference documentation. 

def highlight_faces(image, faces, output_filename):
    """Draws a polygon around the faces, then saves to output_filename.

    Args:
      image: a file containing the image with the faces.
      faces: a list of faces found in the file. This should be in the format
          returned by the Vision API.
      output_filename: the name of the image file to be created, where the
          faces have polygons drawn around them.
    """
    im = Image.open(image)
    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
    # Sepecify the font-family and the font-size
    for face in faces:
        box = [(vertex.x, vertex.y)
               for vertex in face.bounding_poly.vertices]
        draw.line(box + [box[0]], width=5, fill='#00ff00')
        # Place the confidence value/score of the detected faces above the
        # detection box in the output image
        draw.text(((face.bounding_poly.vertices)[0].x,
                   (face.bounding_poly.vertices)[0].y - 30),
                  str(format(face.detection_confidence, '.3f')) + '%',
                  fill='#FF0000')
    im.save(output_filename)

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