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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

IBM hopes 1 million faces will help fight bias in facial recognition [cnbc.com]

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 [flickr.net] 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 [ibm.com]. Also at TechCrunch [techcrunch.com] and VentureBeat [venturebeat.com].

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