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DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification

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Re: DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification

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wow, does anyone apart from facebook and the government actually want facebook to do this? it's pretty terrifying

Not surprisingly, they are called face book after all...

deepfacebook

Btw, does this software match faces to people or just draws a rectangle around faces?

Re: DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not surprisingly, they are called face book after all...

deepfacebook Btw, does this software match faces to people or just draws a rectangle around faces?

It matches your face to your name with 97.25% accuracy, assuming that they have at least 1000 labeled photos of you to start with.

Re: DeepFace: Closing the Gap to Human-Level Performance in Face Verification

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Important to note: - they still need 1000 labeled samples per identity - their network can only handle 4000 distinct identities (at 97.25% accuracy) at a time It's still a very worrying development for online and offline privacy.

Actually no. For one thing, this isn't exactly a stealthy or cheap thing to do. It involves datacenters full of computing resources even for 4000 identies.

I also don't believe it's so much a privacy issue. If I upload pictures to facebook I actually want them to be seen by human beings. The face-recognition only helps with that.

If facebook recognizes me on a picture someplace else, I actually rather want to know about it. I'm not super famous, so unexpected pictures of myself can be more of a bad thing...

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