Image search on the web

Image search on the internet relies mostly on text - in other words, when you make a query in Google Image search, the engine does not know what the image is about, but it relies on caption (human tagging - manual assignment of meta-data), key words close to the image.
Up to now this is the [...]

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Face Recognition Algorithms - time for some rethinking!

I think it’s high time we admit it; despite all the work that has been done (and all the complex maths used) on face recognition systems, the performance of these algorithms and systems are abysmal. They certainly do well in lab conditions (error rates of maybe 1 in 50) but in real life conditions, they [...]

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