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Acuant Face Match API

Facial comparison and matching operations

Acuant Face Match API is one of 13 APIs that Acuant publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Face Match. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against 4 base URLs: https://us.acas.acuant.net, https://eu.acas.acuant.net, https://aus.acas.acuant.net, https://preview.acas.acuant.net.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://services.assureid.net
Authentication
HTTP Basic, HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 2

Acuant Face Match API declares 2 security schemes for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP basic authentication (BasicAuth). It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (BearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • BasicAuth — HTTP Basic authentication. Credentials encoded as Base64("username:password") in the Authorization header.
  • BearerAuth — JWT bearer token obtained from the /api/v1/token endpoint.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Face Match 1

Facial comparison and matching operations

POST
/api/v1/facematch
Compare two facial images
compareFaces body → 200400401403500

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are FaceMatchResult (5 properties), FaceMatchData (2 properties), FaceMatchRequest (2 properties), Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

Error
object
2 properties
FaceMatchSettings
object
1 property 1 required
FaceMatchRequest
object
2 properties 2 required
FaceMatchResult
object
5 properties
FaceMatchData
object
2 properties 2 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

acuant-face-match-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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Acuant FRM Face Recognition API
Acuant Passive Liveness API
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Acuant Ozone API
Acuant Authentication API
Acuant Chip Data API
Acuant Document Data API
Acuant Document Instances API
Acuant Images API
Acuant Liveness API
Acuant Metadata API