Participants were then asked to gauge how alive the image looked based solely on the one visible facial feature.
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What we have been able to gather, however, is that much of the process hinges on the illuminated facial feature of one key player.
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Best Face is a function that allows multiple people take multiple pictures and select the best facial feature for each one to create a picture that can satisfy everyone.
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It triggered an audit which required Facebook to disclose more user data and, importantly , to turn off its facial recognition feature in Europe.
There's still a lot of work to do, and Nanek hopes that with more powerful hardware the facial recognition feature could be left running constantly, removing the need to snap and upload photos.
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Last year, when Facebook first started rolling out its facial recognition-based photo-tagging feature in Europe, our friends across the Atlantic flipped out.
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However, for researchers who have been analyzing facial expressions in a lab for decades, this feature was nothing short of ground breaking.
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To paraphrase the old saying, a facial impression is worth 1000 words (and it also has the convenient feature of not being persuasive evidence in court).
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The most expensive systems feature high-resolution outdoor cameras, reinforced windows, motion detectors and facial recognition scanners.
Microsoft announced a new feature coming to its Xbox Kinect that allows the camera system to detect facial movements and project them in real-time onto a digital character.
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