[Figure 1:
The task of facial recognition can be achieved by converting the image of an unnamed person (right) into a series of physical characteristics, and identifying which image best matches the list of physical characteristics within a database of named photos (left).
Year 6 students were introduced to the artificial intelligence
task of facial recognition.
Not exact matches
The first study to test the skills
of FBI agents and other law enforcers who have been trained in
facial recognition has provided a reassuring result — they perform better than the average person or even computers on this difficult
task.
My sense is that by the end
of this decade, pattern -
recognition tasks like
facial tracking will become commonplace.
«There has been common lore in the behavioral literature that women do better than men in many types
of face - processing
tasks, such as face
recognition and detecting and categorizing
facial expressions, although, when you look in the empirical literature, the findings are not so clear cut,» said Scherf.
Their responses on these
facial affect
recognition tasks were correlated with neuroimaging changes on diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), which shows the integrity
of white matter tracts in the brain.
At the center, in the back
of the retina, is the macula, a small area about 5.5 millimeters in diameter that is responsible for central vision, which is essential for
tasks such as reading, driving and
facial recognition.
Before and after, both groups performed various
tasks, including
facial recognition as well as tests
of their empathy and sexual arousal.
The
facial recognition task was an unplugged activity in which students act out the algorithm physically in a game, without the use
of a computer or robot.
Complicated
tasks like
facial recognition or text - to - speech that previously would have involved writing a lot
of code or hiring experts can now be outsourced to another company, and you can just pay to use them.
That's a lot
of sums, which is why Honor has added a dedicated Neural Network Processing Unit (NPU) to its Kirin 970 chipset: the Kirin 970 is already an incredibly quick chipset, but having dedicated hardware to take care
of tasks such as
facial modelling and
recognition makes something very complex happen very quickly.
Recognition of peer emotions in children with ADHD: Evidence from an animated
facial expressions
task.
Other commonly used measures
of empathy include
tasks assessing
recognition of facial expressions
of emotion (considered critical for cognitive empathy).