Facebooks New DeepFace Program Is Just As Creepy As It Sounds - Facebook owns the worlds largest photo library, and it now has the technology to match almost all the faces within it. Yes, even the ones you dont tag. Facebook announced last week that it has developed a program called DeepFace, which researchers say can determine whether two photographed faces are of the same person with 97.25 percent accuracy. According to Facebook, humans put to the same test answer correctly 97.53 percent of the time -- only a quarter of a percent better than Facebooks software. The takeaway: Facebook has essentially caught up to humans when it comes to remembering a face. The program was developed by three in-house Facebook researchers and a professor at Tel Aviv University. As an example, the developers show in a paper on the program that DeepFace can successfully recognize that this is Academy Award winner Sylvester Stallone. CONTINUE READING HERE: huffingtonpost/2014/03/18/facebook-deepface-facial-recognition_n_4985925.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:32:48 +0000
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