Autodesk’s AVA is built to be a fount of empathy, no matter how mean a customer gets.
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Better facial recognition algorithms through Caricatures
How does a computer recognize a face?
Since 9/11, there’s been a renewed interest in facial recognition algorithm to catch terrorists trying to slip into the country but ten years later, the system ain’t anywhere close to perfect (yes, even including Facebook’s creepy facial recognition system)
Perhaps they’re going about it the wrong way, according to Ben Austen of Wired. Rather than taking biometric measurements of the size of a person’s nose or eyes, computers would do well to learn from caricaturists instead…
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