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Face Recognition by Microsoft and Facebook

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Gilles | 2 Comments

Whau, it seems that this week was much going on. I have heart the wording face recognition at least two times. It started with the announcement of Microsoft new operating system Windows 8. According to some blog post, Micrsosoft gave us a first glimpse of what we can expect to see in the new operating system Windows 8.

Features and Classifiers

Posted on April 23, 2010 by sebastien | No Comments

In this new post, I will introduce 2 concepts that are key elements in all face processing algorithms: features and classifiers. Let's start with some definitions: Features "In pattern recognition, features are the individual measurable heuristic properties of the phenomena being observed. Choosing discriminating and independent features is key to any pattern recognition algorithm being successful in classification. Features are usually numeric, but structural features such as strings and graphs are used in syntactic pattern recognition." (Wikipedia) Classifiers "A classifier is a sort of a function that provides a tagged class as an ...