Facebook Creates Software That Matches Faces Almost as Well as You Do

TheWindBringeth · Mar 19, 2014

http://www.technologyreview.com/new...-that-matches-faces-almost-as-well-as-you-do/

Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time. New software developed by researchers at Facebook can score 97.25 percent on the same challenge, regardless of variations in lighting or whether the person in the picture is directly facing the camera.
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However, DeepFace remains purely a research project for now.
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The deep-learning part of DeepFace consists of nine layers of simple simulated neurons, with more than 120 million connections between them. To train that network, Facebook’s researchers tapped a tiny slice of data from their company’s hoard of user images—four million photos of faces belonging to almost 4,000 people. “Since they have access to lots of data of this form, they can successfully train a high-capacity model,” says Kumar.
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