Josh.st » face detection http://josh.st Web, English, 中国, and various geekosity Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:39:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Facebook Tag a Friend feature destined to confuse http://josh.st/2010/07/06/facebook-tag-a-friend-feature-destined-to-confuse/ http://josh.st/2010/07/06/facebook-tag-a-friend-feature-destined-to-confuse/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 08:27:35 +0000 Josh http://josh.st/?p=1643 Tag a Friend feature on Facebook

This was the first time I ever encountered this face-detection feature, and it just so happened Facebook picked a particularly poor photo to introduce it with!

Clearly they’ve started using a face-detection algorithm to pinpoint probable candidates for tagging — unfortunately, the algorithm is easily fooled by V for Vendetta masks. The photo in question features four friends and we have no idea who is whom — it was a few years ago and we’re all identically clothed!

Nice one, Facebook!

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