We can no longer say that computers will one day be able to put names to human faces better than we can -- that day might be already here. Facebook researchers have published a paper about a newly ...

Facebook's facial recognition research project, DeepFace (yes really), is now very nearly as accurate as the human brain. DeepFace can look at two photos, and irrespective of lighting or angle, can ...

Almost two years ago, Facebook bought Face.com, an Israeli startup that specialized in face-recognition software. Given the instant backlash of headlines containing the word “creepy,” it’s no surprise ...

Facebook’s ‘Deepface’ photo-matching software can now ‘recognize’ pairs of human faces with an accuracy just a fraction of a percentage point behind human beings - a huge leap forward in the ...

Britain’s The Independent newspaper reports the social network’s deep learning algorithms (computer programs that can learn to recognise patterns from large amounts of data) can now say when two ...

Facebook has cooked up facial verification software that will match faces almost to the level humans can. Aside from the obvious tagging implications, it'll be interesting to see what Facebook does ...

Facebook’s facial recognition abilities are advancing at a scary pace. Example A: DeepFace, Facebook's project that can identify a face within a crowd with 97.25 percent accuracy. Facebook praises ...

If you’re the type to care about your privacy while using the Internet – or just while walking down the street – then you’re likely a bit unsettled by facial recognition technology. When your picture ...

The ability to recognize human faces has always been a benchmark for artificial intelligence. Facebook’s new facial recognition technology–called DeepFace–comes astonishingly close to human ...

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