Performance of facial recognition software continues to improve
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 08:50
in Mathematics & Economics
Who is that stranger in your social media photo? A click on the face reveals the name in seconds, almost as soon as you can identify your best friend. While that handy app is not quite ready for your smart phone, researchers are racing to develop reliable methods to match one person's photo from millions of images for a variety of applications. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) reports that results from its 2013 test of facial recognition algorithms show that accuracy has improved up to 30 percent since 2010.