<story><title>A Face Recognition Algorithm That Outperforms Humans?</title><url>https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/2c567adbf7fc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apu</author><text>First, my earlier comments on a &amp;quot;competing&amp;quot; approach from Facebook may help give relevant context for how to think about these numbers: &lt;a href=&quot;https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7393378&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=7393378&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Briefly skimming through this paper, it appears that these numbers are not a fair comparison, as this paper uses the &lt;i&gt;un&lt;/i&gt;restricted protocol of LFW[1], whereas the other methods in the ROC curve shown in the paper are using the restricted protocol. As you might imagine, the latter is more restrictive -- specifically in terms of amount of training data allowed. And as I mentioned in my previous comment, training data is king in these kind of systems -- more is always better.&lt;p&gt;To go slightly out on a limb, I think more significant than the new theoretical model proposed in this paper is probably the use of lots of different types of datasets for training. (Significantly more data &amp;gt;&amp;gt; more complicated models, most of the time.) But I&amp;#x27;d have to read the paper much more carefully to be sure about this.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;vis-www.cs.umass.edu&amp;#x2F;lfw&amp;#x2F;results.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>A Face Recognition Algorithm That Outperforms Humans?</title><url>https://medium.com/the-physics-arxiv-blog/2c567adbf7fc</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ihodes</author><text>The actual paper (parts are accessible &amp;amp; interesting): &lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3840v1.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;arxiv.org&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;1404.3840v1.pdf&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>