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by kaivi 2866 days ago
I've tinkered with face recognition in the past days, and am now waiting for a response to my GCE quota request for a V100 GPU. $8/h rate for a preemptible instance seems really cheap, yet I am not sure if I will ever be able to process my dataset.

Does anyone have a clue on how much it will cost to detect faces and extract 128d encodings from ~100M of 200x200 photos?
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symisc_devel 2866 days ago
PixLab do offer quota based monthly plans for such task including standard face detection, shape extraction, gender, age and emotion pattern extraction. They do charge $0.9 per 1000 requests after you reach your monthly quota (1.1M API calls).

https://pixlab.io/cmd?id=facedetect.

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kaivi 2866 days ago
Woah, that would be $80k to process my dataset. I'll try renting hardware instead.
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symisc_devel 2862 days ago
Not that much. Contact them and they will bring back with an offer adequate to your dataset and budget.
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