title: Graphic Recognition of People
body: <p>I would like to know what is the best approach to begin a project to perform graphical recognition of people.  In other words, the computer will parse an image file and through a heuristic figure out if it sees the shape of a person.</p>
  
  <p>Any API's or open sources available, is this too ahead of the times?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>