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posted by martyb on Thursday January 31 2019, @03:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the you-should-be-in-pictures dept.

IBM hopes 1 million faces will help fight bias in facial recognition

IBM thinks the data being used to train facial recognition systems isn't diverse enough.

The tech giant released a trove of data containing 1 million images of faces taken from a Flickr dataset with 100 million photos and videos.

The images are annotated with tags related to features including craniofacial measurements, facial symmetry, age and gender.

Researchers at the company hope that these specific details will help developers train their artificial intelligence-powered facial recognition systems to identify faces more fairly and accurately.

And then the police adopted the new facial recognition algorithms and everyone lived happily ever after.

IBM blog post. Also at TechCrunch and VentureBeat.


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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Thursday January 31 2019, @03:56PM (2 children)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 31 2019, @03:56PM (#794558) Journal

    That's not very politically correct.

    It could be rephrased better . . .

    1. I offer the suggestion to improve your database and make it more inclusive by excluding old white dudes from your database.

    2. Old white dudes are definitely into diversity! As long as only old white dudes are included.

    Does't that sound better? I have found that it is usually possible to trade logic and internal self consistency in exchange for political correctness.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:45PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:45PM (#794576) Journal

    ROFLMAO

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday February 01 2019, @09:20PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 01 2019, @09:20PM (#795189) Journal

      It's all due to DannyB's Law Of Conservation Of Political Correctness and Logic, which simply states that:

      The amount of logic in a statement multiplied by the amount of political correctness in that statement always remain constant.

      You can trade political correctness for logic, and vice versa, but you cannot change the product of those two, for any given statement.

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