With Facebook's New Tech, You'll Never Need to K**w Friends' Faces Again
 

With Facebook's New Tech, You'll Never Need to K**w Friends' Faces Again
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It's easy for humans to identify faces in pictures on Facebook, but the method isn't as simple for computers. Sure, Facebook has a suggested prompt that predicts who you're trying to tag, but **w the company is working on a tech**logy that promises "near-human accuracy" so you won't have to do it yourself in the future.

Facebook's API Group is developing software called DeepFace, which maps 3D facial features and creates a colorless model to narrow in on specific characterizations. The accuracy of the method is 97.25%, which is just under the 97.5% accuracy that a human can identify, according to the group. Read more...

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