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Apply to questions about systems for identifying an individual from an image (eg for security) or just for recognising that part of an image is a person’s face (eg as a step towards making anonymous, say through pixelation).

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In Facebook's Facial Recognition Data, what are "Threshold" and "Example Count"

When you download your Facebook data, you get this photos/facedata.htm page: MyReal RealName Facial Recognition Data Threshold 1 3.2382398572935 Threshold 2 3.0234235928592 Threshold 3 1....
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Wrong person identified by Google Photos

In my People and Pets album on Google Photos, it has done a very good job at identifying my friends and family, but there are a few errors (wrong person identified, two albums of the same person, ...
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How do I find photos of someone in Google Photos

I am reading this help page. On this page it says the following: Find photos of someone & apply a label Use face groups to more easily search and manage your photos. After you apply a label to ...
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How to remove someone from People results in Google Photos?

When searching for photos in the new Google Photos app, the facial recognition feature culls together a directory of different people to allow you to search your photos by individuals. Currently, you ...
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Google Photos Faces filter does not appear

Google's help section regarding "Find faces" says: Go to photos.google.com/search. Under the People section, click a person's face to see photos that include similar faces. (If you don't see the ...
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Does turning off facial recognition remove (or prevent the creation of) facial templates

As I understand, facebook's facial recognition creates a facial template for each user based on their photos. Does disabling facial recognition suggestions either delete existing templates or prevent ...
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Disable Facebook facial recognition

I recently noticed that Facebook was tagging me in my wife's photos that she did not tag me in. Apparently Facebook now tags people automagically by facial recognition. How can I disable this ...