Being in the facial recognition space we see a lot of news come through every week. We decided to try and compile a list of some of the best and most interesting news for our customers sprinkled in with what we are working on as well.
Our Favorite Story of the Week
Using faces to grab attention
At Kairos we believe in the power of the face. While this article is not strictly about facial recognition, it has some great insight into designing with faces.
Excerpt:
"Our brains are hard-wired to recognize faces. Newborns have been shown to mimic facial expressions as early as their second day alive, which means we're picking up on facial patterns FAR before other communication modes kick in."
More Facial Recognition News
Google Analytics for billboards?
Interesting demo from a new startup showing the power of facial detection. Link
More commercial uses for facial detection
Facial detection and recognition are becoming more and more commonplace as the technology and algorithms get better and better. Next up, virtual mirrors. Link
A fun look at Facebook's facial recognition
As we talked about in previous issues, Facebook's facial recognition engine while very accurate is at the mercy of humans performing the enrollment operations. As the saying goes, garbage in -- garbage out. Link
Kairos Update
New FREE iOS facial recognition SDK Released!
Last week we mentioned that the Kairos iOS SDK for our facial detection and recognition API would be coming within the coming weeks. Well, we are a little ahead of schedule and are proud to announce general availabilty of our iOS SDK featuring our new ultra-fast face detector.
If you create something cool or interesting with the Kairos Facial Recognition SDK or API let us know and we will feature it in a future newsletter. No matter what, we would love to hear your feedback.
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Cole Calistra - @kairoscto
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