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Science Podcast: Accurate Automatic Face Recognition; Complete Synthesis of a Genome; Unde...
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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, t...
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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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Interviewee - Rob Jenkins This is very surprising to us. Once we fed the computer the average images, its <span class="highlight">performance</span> was 100%, so it got all <span class="highlight">of</span> the faces right. On standard photographs, when we were just showing it new photos <span class="highlight">of</span> individuals who we knew were in the database, they got 54% <span class="highlight">of</span> those right. We used an online implementation <span class="highlight">of</span> an industry-standard <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> 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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technique you&rsquo;re <span class="highlight">using</span> at the moment. So it&rsquo;s a bit like saying, &ldquo;It doesn&rsquo;t matter which car you drive, if you use this fuel, you&rsquo;ll double the car&rsquo;s <span class="highlight">performance</span>.&rdquo; Interviewer - Robert Frederick Where might we see this technology implemented first? Interviewee - Rob Jenkins Well, the advent <span class="highlight">of</span> better-than-photo images does raise the question <span class="highlight">of</span> what kind <span class="highlight">of</span> images we should carry on our passports and on our identification documents. It would be relatively straightforward to include an average image <span class="highlight">of</span> a