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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: 2, Funny) by nitehawk214 on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:05PM (1 child)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday January 31 2019, @04:05PM (#794561)

    I originally thought the title was "Diversity in feces."

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:27PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 31 2019, @05:27PM (#794603)

    You mean it isn't?