Chapter 4 Machine Learning: Identifying People in Images

So you’ve posted a photo to your favorite social media site and it suddenly puts little boxes around each person’s face and asks you to tag who they are. The first part—recognizing there’s a face in the image—is facial detection. The second part is facial recognition—putting a name to a face. The reason the site is asking you to name the people in the image? That’s so it can learn to recognize that face in other pictures. Next thing you know, it’ll be auto-suggesting people in other pictures—Facebook, for example, is learning faces.

Now that you have a smart camera set up, we’re going ...

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