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  2. History of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook's face recognition algorithm reaches near-human accuracy in identifying faces. [235] [236] 2014: March 25: Acquisition: Facebook announces that it is acquiring Oculus VR, Inc., a leading virtual reality company. [237] [238] The amount is reported to be $2 billion in cash and stock. [239] [240] [241] 2014: March 27: Accessibility

  3. DeepFace - Wikipedia

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    DeepFace is a deep learning facial recognition system created by a research group at Facebook. It identifies human faces in digital images. The program employs a nine-layer neural network with over 120 million connection weights and was trained on four million images uploaded by Facebook users. [1][2] The Facebook Research team has stated that ...

  4. Facial recognition system - Wikipedia

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    Automatic ticket gate with face recognition system in Osaka Metro Morinomiya Station. A facial recognition system[1] is a technology potentially capable of matching a human face from a digital image or a video frame against a database of faces. Such a system is typically employed to authenticate users through ID verification services, and works ...

  5. List of Facebook features - Wikipedia

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    Facebook allows users to upload photos, and to add them to albums. In December 2010, the company enabled facial recognition technology, helping users identify people to tag in uploaded photos. [91] In May 2011, Facebook launched a feature to tag specific Facebook pages in photos, including brands, products, and companies. [92]

  6. Face detection - Wikipedia

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    Face detection. Automatic face detection with OpenCV. Face detection is a computer technology being used in a variety of applications that identifies human faces in digital images. [1] Face detection also refers to the psychological process by which humans locate and attend to faces in a visual scene. [2]

  7. Eigenface - Wikipedia

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    Informally, eigenfaces can be considered a set of "standardized face ingredients", derived from statistical analysis of many pictures of faces. Any human face can be considered to be a combination of these standard faces. For example, one's face might be composed of the average face plus 10% from eigenface 1, 55% from eigenface 2, and even −3 ...

  8. Face ID - Wikipedia

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    Face ID is a biometric authentication facial recognition system designed and developed by Apple Inc. for the iPhone and iPad Pro.The system can be used for unlocking a device, [1] making payments, accessing sensitive data, providing detailed facial expression tracking for Animoji, as well as six degrees of freedom (6DOF) head-tracking, eye-tracking, and other features.

  9. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    As of December 2022, Facebook claimed almost 3 billion monthly active users. [7] As of October 2023, Facebook ranked as the third-most-visited website in the world, with 22.56% of its traffic coming from the United States. [8][9] It was the most downloaded mobile app of the 2010s.