{"id":744,"date":"2007-03-10T10:39:14","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T09:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/2007\/03\/10\/face-recognition-face-value\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T10:42:52","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T09:42:52","slug":"face-recognition-face-value","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/face-recognition-face-value\/","title":{"rendered":"Face recognition, face value"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a new child, people are always asking if the baby looks like the father or the mother &#8211; probably a prehistoric social reflex to confirm that this is your offspring that you are caring about.<br \/>\nFace recognition clearly is a science of its own &#8211; a lot of heuristics and Bayesian computing &#8211; more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.face-rec.org\/databases\/\">face-rec.org<\/a> &#8211; and even a big business if you think of automatic passport control or age determination for goods that are only allowed for adults.<br \/>\nFace recognition works quite robust as I found in the advanced online demo at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betaface.com\/demo.aspx\">betaface.com<\/a>. A new browser plugin from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarrose.com\/\">polar rose<\/a> will even allows to annotate web pictures &#8211; Orwell meets Flickr.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/img000843.jpg\" title=\"\" data-rel=\"key-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/img000843.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"img000843.jpg\"\/><\/a> <\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 11.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a new child, people are always asking if the baby looks like the father or the mother &#8211; probably a prehistoric social reflex to confirm that this is your offspring that you are caring about. Face recognition clearly is a science of its own &#8211; a lot of heuristics and Bayesian computing &#8211; more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2007\/03\/face-recognition-face-value\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Face recognition, face value<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,9],"tags":[2949,40,2945,781,782,783,785,779,784,750,780,218],"class_list":["post-744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics-biology","category-joke-fun","category-computer-software","tag-computer-software","tag-fun-nothing-else","tag-genetics-biology","tag-adults_face","tag-age_determination","tag-baby_looks","tag-bayesian","tag-face_recognition","tag-heuristics","tag-offspring","tag-passport_control","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}