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
Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words for Computers as Well?
Hint: If you still need to write alt tags for your website images manually, you know the answer. The current image recognition technology has been mostly focused on identifying individual objects, and hence fell short when it came to interpreting images within their context.
Researchers at Stanford University and Google have recently introduced a computer vision software specifically developed to identify scenes. By focusing on recognizing images in their entirety, the software’s inventors hope to advance the field of computer vision towards a more human direction. New York Times
Human caption: “A person riding a dirt bike is covered in mud.”
Computer caption: “A person riding a motorcycle on a dirt road.”
Image courtesy of The New York Times
More Facial Recognition News
How the Internet's Cat Videos Helped Machine Learning
It is no secret that team Kairos has a soft spot for animal related news from the industry. We enjoyed re-reading this article mentioned in the above New York Times piece, about how a group of Google scientists conducted one of the world’s largest facial recognition experiments by feeding their processors data from the millions of cat videos on the internet.
New York Times
The Global Facial Recognition Market Will Reach USD 2.19 Billion by 2019
Forecasts report that the global facial recognition market will reach to more than two billion dollars in five years. According to the research by Transparency Market Research, the highest growth will be in the field of 3D facial recognition due to it’s higher accuracy. Sound familiar?
Biometric Update
Did You Know That Facial Recognition Dates All the Way Back to 1839?
The concept of facial recognition is older than you might think. This article from the Boston Globe offers an illustrated timeline of how the technology came to be since the nineteenth century.
Boston Globe
Cole Calistra
Cole is the CTO at Kairos, a Human Analytics startup that radically changes how companies understand people. He loves all things cloud and making great products come to life.