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Facial Recognition
What's the latest in facial recognition technology? Track breaking news, share reviews of facial recognition services and products, discuss companies trying to innovate in this space.
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Raxxle.com announced at the Ad:Tech Conference that they’re releasing its new social networking community for beta testing.
Powered by patented RaxxleMatch Technology(TM), the site adds the ability to find a member’s “twin” among other users of the community. RaxxleMatch technology uses proprietary facial-recognition software to perform complex analyses of facial characteristics.
Raxxle.com also helps you find your “Celebrity Raxxle” matches from a database of Hollywood stars...
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Raxxle.com announced at the Ad:Tech Conference that they’re releasing its new social networking community for beta testing.
Powered by patented RaxxleMatch Technology(TM), the site adds the ability to find a member’s “twin” among other users of the community. RaxxleMatch technology uses proprietary facial-recognition software to perform complex analyses of facial characteristics.
Raxxle.com also helps you find your “Celebrity Raxxle” matches from a database of Hollywood stars, sports...
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So I stumbled accross this great website today that let's you submit photos of people to find their celebrity look-a-likes. Sure, the technology is not perfect (e.g., it said I look 50% like Thierry Henry, who if you don't know is black...and I'm not). But with some of other photos I tested I found that their technology can be frightenly accurate.
Take a look below...evidently I have more than one work colleague that shares an uncanny resemblance to Knight Rider himself, Mr. David...
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Digimarc Corporation today announced that Manitoba Public Insurance has chosen Digimarc ' s Facial Recognition Solution to help screen applicants for driver licenses -- including its new Enhanced Driver ...
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Disclosed is a service which may be provided on a subscriber basis which is retailer independent and expandable beyond retail.
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Illinois DMVs are using facial recognition biometrics with their database of driver's license pictures to help stop driver's license fraud, according to a Government Technology article.
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After 9/11, there was all sorts of talk about how there would be a boom in the markets for security and surveillance technology, with facial recognition technology seen as a key area. That sounded great... except for the simple fact that the technology doesn't work. Various tests of the...
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Sorting the cows from the goats Aussie scientists have launched an ingenious "cowcam" facial recognition system designed to identify animal species and keep unwanted riff-raff out of cattle watering points, the ...
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Following a New York Times article about billboards with facial-recognition-based tracking systems - which caused a privacy stir - TruMedia Technologies sent a letter to the paper explaining it would never ...
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Following an article in The New York Times about billboards with facial-recognition-based tracking systems that caused a stir in regards to privacy issues, TruMedia Technologies sent a letter to the paper ...
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Putting cameras in billboards to measure how many people look at them isn't a new idea, but it's starting to get a little more creepily-high-tech, with several advertisers now using facial-recognition software to record things like age and gender. A company called...
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In a letter to the New York Times and a much longer, more boring version of the same letter sent to us, TruMedia Technologies says that none of its tech will ever record or store any video, only analyze frames ...
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A company called Quividi has supplied camera-equipped ads to McDonald's in Singapore and Ikea in Europe, and it's now bringing the tech to the States, where it's been deployed in New York in ads for A&E's The ' ...
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