An Algorithm That Recognizes Faces Better Than People Can

Faces from the Dataset Used to Test the Algorithm Described Below Labeled Faces in the Wild, University of Massachusetts It's already a little eerie when Facebook suggests tags for who it recognizes in your photo, especially for faces that are small, blurry, or otherwise difficult to distinguish. What if Facebook were even better--better at recognizing people in pictures than you are? Two computer scientists are announcing they've made a program that is better at matching photos than people are,...