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Uploaded by on Jan 24, 2008

Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13222-averaging-faces-could-impr...

Researchers have found that combining several photos of a person to produce an 'average' image improves the performance of face recognition systems. Watch what happens with photos of actor Jack Nicholson!

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  • The only thing to do is marry a plastic surgeon and alter your face significantly every other weekend. Then big brother will not know who you are. Of course if big brother doesn't recognize you, you won't get your food ration for the day, but whatever...

  • How wonderful for Big Brother's job to be made so much easier and efficient.

    [sarcasm]

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  • While I usually agree with Benjamin Franklin, I think that could be dangerous if taken to the extreme. For example, we inherently have the freedom to kill anyone whenever we feel like it, but since we live in a society we've made murder a crime to protect ourselves from being killed. So I don't think that giving up some freedom is a bad thing, as long as it's not carried to the other extreme either. There's a balance there - somewhere.

  • lol, there seems to be an interesting relationship between privacy/freedom and security.

    Benjamin Franklin said those who give freedom for protection deserve neither.

  • lmao, do you mean recognition or analyzing? =p

  • good until, its abused by big brother.

  • There always seems to be a trade-off between security and privacy. If you beef up security everyone complains that it's an invasion of their privacy, but if you give them more privacy everyone wants more security. I wrote a paper for my technology class about that.

  • Good idea and Bad in the same time, good for facial recognition during times of distress, and/or identity requirement, bad for privacy reasons.

  • ya very god

  • that's only because there hasn't been much commercial interest in that sort of thing... yet.

  • big brother at it again,wake up with orgonite

  • Face recognition is one thing, but as I can tell from the replies to my posts, computers will never exceed humans ability at ass recognition.

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