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Re:Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders by mercurial on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @07:32AM (#9302866)
Seems to me that you would seriously reduce the size of the problem by first running a face-recognition algorithm, and then only analyzing the face...
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Re:Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders by chaosfactor on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @11:36AM (#9304407)
You've created a nice little chicken and egg problem for yourself.
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Re:Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders by im3w1l on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @12:02PM (#9304608)
I think he means first detect that there is a face at all, and where in the image it is. When you know that, do further processing.
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Re:Deep Learning, the Curse of Dimensionality, and Autoencoders by mercurial on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:49PM (#9306323)
That's the idea.
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