DeepFace
AI
face recognition library
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How HN took it
3 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 11 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Docs: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Easy to use with a good readme and docs
From 1 comment
Love this package. has a bunch of functions for most face recognition, detection and feature extraction purposes. love the readme.md docs for familiarizing with the basic…
bishes on HN
Offers multiple backend models for the same task
From 1 comment
Love this package. has a bunch of functions for most face recognition, detection and feature extraction purposes. love the readme.md docs for familiarizing with the basic…
bishes on HN
Objections
Age estimation is unreliable, especially for occluded or angled photos and older people
From 2 comments
It depends on the quality of the image. It's most accurate for a square head-on photo, like a passport photo, and can be wildly off for occluded or angled photos. It's more…
barrkel on HNi would assume it CAN Be accurate if people 'look their age' but of course you can easily have someone who looks younger or older than their age that skews the overall etimate
Refusing23 on HN
Ethical concerns about facial recognition and privacy
From 2 comments
Quite curious how no one ever talks about “responsible use of facial recognition” or policies to control the use of facial recognition, as it totally pervades and destroys the…
highcountess on HNHow do you measure positive and negative societal impact of this technology? I find mobile phone face unlock so useful, giving every citizen the power to use face recognition…
liamYC on HN
Post reads like ChatGPT-written text
From 1 comment
This looks very similar to what ChatGPT would write
maximilianthe1 on HN
Built-in cultural bias in gender and emotion attributes
From 1 comment
There is the EU AI Act which heavily regulates the use of facial recognition, but I feel that we as “the people in tech who makes these things” should be a lot more conservative…
isodev on HN
Questions
How accurate is age detection for people who look younger or older than their age?
From 1 comment
how accurate is the age detection? i.e. lets say you have someone who looks much younger than their age, would this model be able to detect the persons actual age?
aussieguy1234 on HN