Your ‘10-year-challenge’ photos may one day help SA catch criminals – here’s how
The “10-year-challenge” posts currently trending on social media are ideal learning materials to teach machines to help catch criminals a Wired columnist believes – and those posts could play a role in helping SA find missing children in the future.
The posts, trending on Facebook and Twitter since the beginning of January, asks users to share photos of themselves from 2008, and then again in 2018.
In a opinion piece published on Wednesday, Wired’s Kate O’Neill explained how the posts could help improve algorithms designed to take into account ageing.
Highly accurate facial recognition systems already exist, and the technology is already in everyday use, such as for unlocking your phone just by showing it your face, but they rarely take into account ageing.
Source: businessinsider.co.za
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