We can no longer say that computers will one day be able to put names to human faces better than we can -- that day might be already here. Facebook researchers have published a paper about a newly ...

Facebook has cooked up facial verification software that will match faces almost to the level humans can. Aside from the obvious tagging implications, it'll be interesting to see what Facebook does ...

Have you noticed that Facebook is getting better at making suggestions for people to tag in the photos that you have uploaded? Facebook will only get better at identifying faces thanks to advances in ...

Facebook has reached a major milestone in computer vision and pattern recognition, with ‘DeepFace,’ an algorithm capable of identifying a face in a crowd with 97.25 percent accuracy, which is pretty ...

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Imagine a computer that can recognize your friend virtually as well as you can. The day is already here. Facebook tested new facial recognition software that can place faces with a 97.25% accuracy — ...

Almost two years ago, Facebook bought Face.com, an Israeli startup that specialized in face-recognition software. Given the instant backlash of headlines containing the word “creepy,” it’s no surprise ...

Uploading dozens of photos and tagging each one on Facebook can be tedious, and it appears the social network knows this. It recently created an algorithm that identifies faces 'as accurately as a ...

Facebook wants to increase revenue by encouraging engagement, so it has invented DeepFace, a feature with a sinister name and the ability to recognise and tag a face in a photo with an accuracy rate ...

How many photos of you are on Facebook? The social network says roughly 400 million new images are added every day - and it's got a revolutionary software system to keep track of them. It's called, ...