Facebook updates features of its facial recognition system

The social network will not only use this mechanism to suggest labels in the photographs uploaded to the platform, but three new functionalities were made known by Mark Zuckerberg's team.

"We work continuously to improve Facebook, that's why we are incorporating other ways to use facial recognition" were the words of the team from the social network that were posted on the wall of each user. The year 2014 Facebook introduced its facial recognition system called "Deepface" which has a precision of 97.25% that resembles the human eye. This mechanism identifies the faces thanks to the use of a technology of 3D mapping of the points on each face labeled in the photos of the social network.

The published document indicated that currently, facial recognition technology will allow looking for photos in which you appear, but in which you are not labeled. Also, the use of facial recognition will be a security tool since it will prevent strangers from using your photos without authorization. Finally, it will serve to indicate people with vision problems who appears in the photo or video. In addition, the Facebook team maintained that the facial recognition function is activated for all users, despite that, it can be deactivated from application settings.

"You control facial recognition, this function is activated, but you can configure it as deactivated whenever you want." This also applies to functions that we add in the future, "the report said. In this way, the social network, which already exceeded two billion users worldwide, announced the new functions that will allow facial recognition within the application.

 

How does it paintings?

While you upload a photograph to FB, its gadget getting to know systems detect the faces that are seen and measure them. because we all have unique faces, all of us have different measurements for such things as our nostril bridges, our eyelids, and the width of our lips. simply placed, these combined measurements turn out to be a “faceprint,” and when you consider that everyone’s is unique, faceprints may be used to discover humans. while you add photos on FB and it shows a pal to tag, it’s because Facebook has discovered a fit between the face measurements of the person inside the photo and a selected set of faceprints it has on file. (With two billion customers, Facebook has a number of face prints on record.)

What do I am getting out of all this?

With all that face statistics, FB can (in case you select to allow it!) routinely tag you in images you haven’t been tagged in. when you have an active account, FB also can inform you if any other user uploads an image your face as their profile image and flag that consumer for catfishing. moreover, visually impaired users can use face popularity together with the social network’s automatic alt-text device to pick out who seems on Facebook snapshots. Undeniably, face prints are an effective way to become aware of people and discover fraud.

Meanwhile, the collection of face data by using a wide array of generation groups rolls ever onward, with our faces being used for everything from identification at airports to client reward points without spending dime burgers. possibly the first-class precis of the high stakes involved comes from Adam Harvey, a counter-surveillance professional who spoke with Gizmodo last fall.

“Whilst any statistics is co-opted for protection purposes it becomes much less comfy to the percentage,” Harvey said. “as an instance, sharing your mom’s maiden call online would now not be a terrific concept. Likewise, Facebook's proposed facial recognition product might make sharing your face on-line a protection problem, even more so than it already is.”