Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial

Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by Animats on Thursday December 29, 2016 @03:00PM (#13279649)

Of course. See this marketing video from FaceFirst, which powered the retail application mentioned above.[1] They offer cloud-based facial recognition as a service. "FaceFirst maintains a massive, centrally managed database and server farm at our headquarters."

Since much of their input comes from video, they get lots of pictures of each individual and combine them. This improves accuracy. They use the Cognitec face matching algorithm.

WalMart tried FaceFirst in 2015, and gave up on it.[2] "We were looking for a concrete business rationale ... It didn’t have the ROI."

[1] http://www.facefirst.com/ [2] http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/wal-mart-facial-recognition/

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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by CompanionCuube on Thursday December 29, 2016 @07:26PM (#13281484)

>WalMart tried FaceFirst in 2015, and gave up on it.[2] "We were looking for a concrete business rationale ... It didn’t have the ROI."

This is the WalMart that shortstaffed stores even though it increased inventory lost.

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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by shostack on Thursday December 29, 2016 @08:41PM (#13281874)

I'm guessing the cost of properly staffing was higher than the wholesale price of the stolen goods?

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