Today, Chaochao Lu and Xiaoou Tang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong say they’ve done just that. These guys have developed a face recognition algorithm called GaussianFace that outperforms humans for the first time.
Full article here.
While this is an exciting technical achievement, it's yet another tool in the surveillance arsenal that could be ripe for abuse.
Facial recognition - computers now better than people
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