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Science Podcast: Accurate Automatic Face Recognition; Complete Synthesis of a Genome; Unde...
Interviewee - Rob Jenkins This is very surprising to us. Once we fed the computer the average images, its performance was 100%, so it got all of the faces right. On standard photographs, when we were just showing it new photos of individuals who we...
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Interviewee - Rob Jenkins This is very surprising to us. Once we fed the computer the average images, its performance was 100%, so it got all of the faces right. On standard photographs, when we were just showing it new photos of individuals who we knew were in the database, they got 54% of those right. We used an online implementation of an industry-standard face recognition system. This is at a fantastic website called myheritage.com. And it started out as a genealogy research website, but they kept
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=7
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=7
facial <span class="highlight">recognition</span> <span class="highlight">to</span> 100% by using what they call an "averaged" <span class="highlight">face</span>. In <span class="highlight">the</span> future, it could mean <span class="highlight">a</span> <span class="highlight">new</span> kind of photo for your passport. I spoke <span class="highlight">to</span> Jenkins from his office at <span class="highlight">the</span> University of Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there’s increasing interest in security applications and security infrastructure and biometrics in general. <span class="highlight">The</span> problem is, <span class="highlight">a</span> lot of <span class="highlight">the</span> <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> systems that are out there simply don’t work at anything like <span class="highlight">the</span> level that people think they do. So for some
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http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=8
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/data/319/5862/499b/DC1/1#page=8
Interviewee - Rob Jenkins This is very surprising <span class="highlight">to</span> us. Once we fed <span class="highlight">the</span> computer <span class="highlight">the</span> average images, its <span class="highlight">performance</span> was 100%, so it got all of <span class="highlight">the</span> faces right. <span class="highlight">On</span> standard photographs, when we were just showing it <span class="highlight">new</span> photos of individuals who we knew were in <span class="highlight">the</span> database, they got 54% of those right. We used an online implementation of an industry-standard <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> system. This is at <span class="highlight">a</span> fantastic website called myheritage.com. And it started out as <span class="highlight">a</span> genealogy research website, but they kept
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