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Science Podcast: Accurate Automatic Face Recognition; Complete Synthesis of a Genome; Unde...
facial recognition to 100% by using what they call an "averaged" face. In the future, it could mean a new kind of photo for your passport. I spoke to Jenkins from his office at the University of Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there&rsqu...
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facial recognition to 100% by using what they call an "averaged" face. In the future, it could mean a new kind of photo for your passport. I spoke to Jenkins from his office at the University of Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there’s increasing interest in security applications and security infrastructure and biometrics in general. The problem is, a lot of the face recognition systems that are out there simply don’t work at anything like the level that people think they do. So for some
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facial <span class="highlight">recognition</span> to 100% by <span class="highlight">using</span> what they call an "averaged" <span class="highlight">face</span>. In the future, it could mean a new kind <span class="highlight">of</span> photo for your passport. I spoke to Jenkins from his office at the University <span class="highlight">of</span> Glasgow. Interviewee - Rob Jenkins As you know, there’s increasing interest in security applications and security infrastructure and biometrics in general. The problem is, a lot <span class="highlight">of</span> the <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> systems that are out there simply don’t work at anything like the level that people think they do. So for some
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adding functionality to it, and they’ve got this very nice celebrity look-alike service. So they’re hosting a huge database <span class="highlight">of</span> famous <span class="highlight">face</span> images, they have about 30,000 images on their database. And the idea is that you as a user can upload a photograph <span class="highlight">of</span> your own <span class="highlight">face</span>, and it will compare the uploaded image <span class="highlight">of</span> you to all the images in its database and show you which celebrity you most closely resemble. Now this process is driven by <span class="highlight">one</span> <span class="highlight">of</span> the industry standard <span class="highlight">face</span> <span class="highlight">recognition</span> systems called FaceVACS. And
Smithsonian: Magazine: Aerosol Art
present the notion that individuality and portraiture might not be someone's face or body," she says. Conlon agrees: "Graffiti is based on choosing a name and making it as prolific as possible." Subscribe now for more of Smithsonian's coverage on history, science and na...
Who wrote the Book of Life?
life forms that have at one time or another shown their face on our planet. "Some fossils in the ancient Burgess shale are so alien we can't determine which end of the creatures are up, and yet these monsters evolved right here on Earth from the same origins that we did,&...
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