Millions of people use online dating sites each day, scanning through streams
of face images in search of an attractive mate.
Details of this work were presented in March in a technical paper «Thermal to Visible Synthesis
of Face Images using Multiple Regions» at the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, or WACV, in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, which is a technical conference comprised of scholars and scientists from academia, industry and government.
Automatic face recognition is technology that can quickly attach a name to a face by perusing large databases
of face images and finding the closest match.
Not exact matches
There's the popular
image of great leaders involving lots
of stern -
faced seriousness and pointing confidently into the future, and then there's real - life great leadership.
In one study conducted at the University
of Missouri Kansas City, researchers asked college - aged participants to sort the emotional expressions
of computer - generated
images of male
faces.
Still, there is not a company on the
face of the Earth that can maintain a powerful brand
image with lousy or even mediocre products and service.
The fMRI
images of the subjects» brains revealed that, when exhausted, they were terrible at distinguishing friendly
faces from threatening ones.
The site features a variety in - your -
face headshots, and there's also a «rare» selection
of images that includes a real gem
of Travolta playing the violin.
Did you know, for example, that
images of human
faces encourage more social connections with your users?
That's according to one component
of Hartshorne's study, which involved showing thousands
of people
images of faces cropped tightly around the eye area.
More damaging to her
image were the pictures
of her swollen and battered
face that two female L.A. police officers leaked to TMZ, the gossip site, several weeks after the incident.
Their themes — don't risk it all, stay small, charge for value, free is stupid — fly in the
face of the conventional
image that web success comes from big startups that attract massive amounts
of free users and then massive buyouts — yet they're right in line with a time - honored business practice: making a profit.
For gamers fed up with being just another avatar when playing with their friends, an Estonian firm has come up with a photo booth that creates a 3D
image of your
face.
The research out
of Beijing Normal University studied the effects
of anger by asking 73 male volunteers to memorize pairs
of faces and unsettling
images, like injuries or crying children.
Lauder, the group's style and
image director and the
face and head
of her own home and lifestyle brand, AERIN, acknowledged there are overlaps between her own company and that
of the Estee Lauder group.
Faced with the task
of generating engaging messages and
images to promote its brand, the outdoor retailer REI crowdsourced content with their REI 1440 Project.
At the time, Red didn't have so much as a prototype
of an
image chip, and it hadn't gotten far on dozens
of other major technical hurdles it
faced.
The men were told to look at the
images for as long as necessary to make their judgments, and longer time spent looking specifically at the
faces and bodies
of the gay male couples was taken by the researchers as another sign
of attraction to men.
Yes, there are some pretty cool features on the iPhone X: the high definition OLED screen, infrared facial recognition to map the 3D surface
of the
face rather than a flat
image like a photo, and improved cameras with
image stabilization, and built - in capabilities to support augmented reality apps.
They're drawn toward
images of faces.
Red - carpet: Sarandos gets
face time with (clockwise from top left) comedian and Netflix talk - show host Chelsea Handler, at the ICG publicist awards; Idris Elba, star
of Netflix's movie «Beasts
of No Nation,» at the Independent Spirit Awards; Jenji Kohan (left) and Taylor Schilling, creator and star, respectively,
of Netflix's «Orange Is The New Black»; and «House
of Cards» star Kevin Spacey, at a Netflix Emmy's party.Handler: Mathew Imaging — Wireimage / Getty
Images; Elba: Randall Michelson — Wireimage / Getty
Images; Spacey: Charbonneau — Rex Shutterstock via Zuma Press; Kohan: Jesse Grant — Getty
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Having YouTube choose that random shot
of your silly duck
face isn't always the greatest
image for your audience to see, especially if you're using YouTube for some serious business purposes.
There are different ways to perform facial recognition, but generally the accuracy
of it depends on factors such as the quality
of the
image of your
face at authentication time, light conditions, time between the enrollment
image and verification, and visibility
of occluding objects like a scarf or sunglasses.
An IR camera snaps an
image of these dots, which the phone uses to authenticate you against an already - stored
image of your
face.
But while the
image of Sundberg's house standing alone in a field
of destruction has become an icon for the ICF industry, selling concrete houses to North Americans
faces some much stiffer challenges than mere 200 - kilometre - per - hour winds and an eight - metre tidal surge.
Then, creates mental snapshots (SNAP), visual
images of the name and the
face.
The partnership gave Pepsi a fresh, youthful
image and made the world's hottest pop star the
face of the brand, intertwining Pepsi with the King
of Pop's
image.
Unlike novelty smartphone apps that use simple algorithms to morph users» features into different shapes and permutations, Brown's AprilAge relies on a database housing thousands
of scanned
images of real
faces to predict future appearances based on age, gender, ethnicity and lifestyle.
The material is also as thin as paper and can have any number
of incredibly geeky
images imprinted on it, such as superhero logos, the
face of a currency note or stock certificate, or a computer chip.
Substituting these onto the
faces of your «hero
images» can immediately translate an emotion to people — instantly — without using a single line
of copy or text.
The global race for AI chip dominance heats up: We're seeing a Cambrian explosion
of applications for artificial intelligence, from recognizing
faces in videos for security purposes to detecting diseases in medical
images at scale.
NAB wanted to create buzz about their new competitive pricing across a range
of banking products and give their dull institutional
image a much - needed human
face.
They collect 3,228 hedge fund manager photographs via Google
image searches, choosing the best for each manager based on resolution, degree
of forward
facing and neutrality
of expression.
But the automaker's safety reassurances
faced another challenge last week, as a sobering
image made its way around the world: a photo
of a Tesla SUV, battered and charred and missing two front wheels after a fiery wreck that left a father
of two dead.
The cyber world is
faced with two major challenges; users are not aware
of the usage
of images online and related licensing options, and rights holders are unable to...
But we... with unveiled
face, beholding as in a mirror the glory
of the Lord, are being transformed into the same
image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit
of the Lord... looking unto Jesus the author and finisher
of our faith who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand
of the throne
of God» 2Corinthians 3, Hebrews12)
Facing fully real things, we render them knowable in the
images of language, art, and mathematical science.
There is a radiance on the
face of the joyous that pulls out the beauty
of the divine
image, which lays buried underneath the veils
of the passions.
The shroud, which bears the
image of a
face that some Christians say is Jesus», was restored eight years ago to remove a patchwork repair done by 16th - century nuns after the cloth was damaged in a fire.
It is too long to quote in full here, but one has only to think
of a few
of the powerful and particular
images that situate the joy
of the «swinger
of birches» within the real and fallen world: the ice like broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the
face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.»
Anyone interested in following this conflict can log on to sites showing
images of demonstrators on the West Bank or
of stone - throwing youth
facing tanks.
We forget that one
of the central
images of God's communication in the scriptures is that
of the shining
face.
If the union between man and woman has strayed further and further from legal forms, and if homosexual unions are perceived more and more as enjoying the same standing as marriage, then we are truly
facing a dissolution
of the
image of humankind bearing consequences that can only be extremely grave.
Or the light that rings the ordinary
images of ordinary
faces on the local paper's obituary page — or the shadowy depths beneath their smiles.
Last year Popular Mechanics announced that a team
of British scientists, assisted by Israeli archaeologists, had fashioned «the most accurate
image»
of the
face of Jesus.
Lets
face it... they don't care about the victims as much as they care about hurting the
image of religion.
The irony
of you looking at an
image of this rat -
faced pope and somehow seeing the
image of that Jesus you all believe in... just as bad as the Muslims who think their belief is somehow different from the Taliban or other murderous sects.
Christ is the
face or the
image of the invisible God.
When we are
facing a fleshly weakness, but resist it and submit to the Spirit
of God out
of love for Him, God always works it together for good so that we are conformed to His
image.
Dateline recently ran a special with Brian Williams called «Hurricane Katrina: the First Five Days» The
images struck me afresh: families punching their way out
of attics, the looting, bodies floating
face down in the water.