Face2Book

Adding people on Facebook can be so cumbersome because you have to ask for their username or look them up. We wanted to invent a new way to add people on Facebook that is efficient and fun. So we came up with Face2Book! With the Face2Book app, one can use it to snap a selfie of their new friend, and it will automatically pull up their Facebook profile! In the back-end, we used Python and the Facebook Graph API to scrape information on users on Facebook (their name and profile picture using their user id) to obtain data. We then send that data to a Microsoft Azure server that has a Face API for it to train. Then it decides if the picture matches up with your friend, and if it does, it pulls up their Facebook profile!

We are students from the University of Oklahoma, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, University of Washington, and University of California Berkeley. We came together at a hackathon called HackMIT to create an innovative and easier way to connect with people.