Shape Detection API

CSS

Photos and images constitute the largest chunk of the Web, and many include recognisable features, such as human faces or QR codes. Detecting these features is computationally expensive, but, particularly on mobile devices, hardware manufacturers have long been supporting these features. This API allows accessing hardware-accelerated detectors where available. This is expected to be in origin trials in Chrome 58.

Documentation

https://wicg.github.io/shape-detection-api/

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Behind a flag (launch bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 57
Chrome for Android release 57
Chrome for iOS release 57
Android WebView release 57
Opera release 44
Opera for Android release 44

Consensus & Standardization

Firefox: Public support
Edge: No public signals
Safari: No public signals
Web Developers: Positive

Owners

mcasas@chromium.org
xianglu@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-02-24