Facebook R&D Advances in Pattern Recognition for Computer Vision

Facebook latest R&D developments in computer vision and pattern recognition have produced impressive results with DeepFace. 

The produced facebook technology is now capable to recognize people's faces almost as accurate as an average human (with 97.5 percent accuracy). The recognition results shown provides great results although within short variety of scenes.

The Facebook researchers were capable of building 3D models from simply using faces from photos, it then follows that the 3D models can be used and rotated to improve accuracy and thus provide matching/recognition of similar features faces captured at different angles. 

The Facebook DeepFace algorithm as expected requires to be trained on an extensive pool of faces in order to achieve best and optimum accurate results but that is a common practice for any smart system. At present its capability consists of identifying up to 4,000 identities based on a database of over 4 million individual images.

The Facebook research team will present its findings at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Columbus, Ohio in June. 

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Augmented Reality Goggles Glasses Tested by Google Co-Founder

Google's co-founder Sergey Brin has been testing in San Francisco the new flagship technology gadget coming into the market soon. The gadget is an augmented reality glasses called goggles, where it is capable of producing superimposing layered images into locations in real-time.

This comes as Google had confirmed that the new glasses was in research and development for a quite while, but the glasses were never seen in public at such late stages of development. Basically the glasses is capable of showing maps, messages and other information including video. Subsquently the person wearing the glasses will be able to take photos, receive messages, share video recording, and obtain directions all in real-time.

The version spotted is what Google calls "Project Glass," where the glasses are lens-free with a small, clear prism-like display mounted above either eye.  It is still unclear how the glasses are currently being powered or if there are different versions and chargeable options.