How Google Arts and Culture’s Face Match A.I. Actually Works | Inverse
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That’s part of what made the viral Google Arts and Culture feature, allowing users to compare their faces with a work of art, so fun. It played up our natural vanity, for sure, but it also gave us a chance to test out what A.I. is capable of.
Some users took the opportunity to punk the A.I. to hilarious effect:
It sounds like an easy process, but in fact, there is a lot of learning that the machine has to do first. After identifying faces in an image, it may have to reorient or resize it for a better reading — we’ve all been in cases where a selfie taken from too close looks distorted from reality.
Then, once the A.I. has resized and reoriented the face, it creates a “faceprint,” a set of characteristics that uniquely identify one person’s face. This could include the distance between facial features, such as eyes, or shapes and sizes of noses.
Faceprints can then be compared with an individual photo or to databases of many images.
In the case of Google’s museum selfie feature, each selfie that is uploaded is compared with its database of over 70,000 works of art.
According to the Post, users currently have to opt into facial recognition on Google Photos (but not on Facebook).
But, by playing around with this selfie feature, that’s essentially what we’re doing, so we are actively consenting to making Google’s A.I. smarter.
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