Re:Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing
by astar on Sunday April 21, 2013 @10:53AM
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Facial recognition is still treated like some magical technology, like the "zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows. I bet Facebook's technology is ahead of law enforcement's in terms of data, algorithm, and refinement, and yet it still stumbles on pretty obvious faces (if you have the default auto-tag feature left on)
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Correct, and you're talking about cases where you might have literally 500,000+ pixels on a face (close-up shot from an 8MP camera).
The average cctv shot will have around 200-1000 pixels on the entire face, if you're lucky.
Facebook only has to distinguish between friends of the uploader.
US law enforcement has to distinguish between 300 million civilians.
Of the two, I would expect Facebook to be more successful at identifying peolpe.
Re:Facial Recognition Failed in Boston Bombing
by anigbrowl on Sunday April 21, 2013 @04:21PM
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"zoom in, enhance" feature much mocked about on TV crime shows
Actually, those jokes refer to a scene in Blade Runner: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHepKd38pr0