标题: Face Recognition and Matchmaking [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 6-21-2012 08:24 标题: Face Recognition and Matchmaking Sharon Jayson, New to the Web: Look-Alike Love; Facial recognition helps make matches. USA Today, JUne 21,2 012 (front page). http://www.usatoday.com/news/hea ... ion-site/55732168/1
The company is a word play on "find your soulmate."
(b) Face.com
Click "Research" button in the upper right corner, which read in part:
"Working with photos on the web means working with huge amounts of data and also dealing with unconstrained conditions. Such photos are generaly taken in difficult settings, where the faces are not necessarily frontal, nor well lit and may be partly occluded or taken with low resolution cameras. Hence, unconstrained face recognition is very different from the conservative one which is generally employed in security facilities, border control and other controlled spaces."
The technology, it sounds to me, like the same as, or similar to, face recognition of people walking in the street.
(c) The report states, "A statement released by Facebook, which is based in Menlo Park, Calif, says, 'This transaction simply brings a world-class team and a longtime technology vendor in-house.'"
A Facebook spokeswoman said via email to journalists (which is not posted in the company's website): "People who use Facebook enjoy sharing photos and memories with their friends, and Face.com's technology has helped to provide the best photo experience. This transaction simply brings a world-class team and a long-time technology vendor in house."
(d) Well, I donot know. I do not use a mirror. (Yes, I occasionally have spiked hair without knowing it, though I keep my hair short.) So I do not even know what I myself look like.