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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by nerdponx on Friday July 05, 2019 @07:48PM (#20366786)
I wonder how this 81% false positive rate compares to the false positive rate of traditional techniques for developing lists of suspects.
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Re:81% of 'suspects' flagged by Met's police facial recognit... by jturpin on Friday July 05, 2019 @09:18PM (#20367117)
I would love to know this as well. It sounds high but we have no baseline to compare it against - for all we know it could be a massive improvement.
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