How does a robot recognize faces?
How we are giving Pepper the ability to remember and greet a friendly face.
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1 min readAug 13, 2019
Today’s world is focused on face detection more than ever before. Just take a look at latest release of smartphones; most of them now allow you to unlock your phone with face, or at least capture the picture of someone potentially stealing your phone. Looking to social media, Facebook offers to automatically tag you and your friends, or find images in which you are included but not yet tagged. Snapchat is providing us with the ever popular face filters to make us look like a pirate or puppy. In Google Photos, we are able to group photos by similar faces to easily find all photos of our best friends. Finally, face detection technology has been involved in some controversial topics such as DeepFakes or FindFace.
