Future Faces

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🗓️ 15 June 2014

⏱️ 53 minutes

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What’s the future of our faces? With new facial transplantation surgeries and the latest news about the NSA collecting images for facial recognition anaylsis, we're wondering about what we see in the mirror every day. The NSA Wants Your Faceprint - Do You Know Why?; Artist Uses Makeup To Fool Surveillance Cameras; Former Model Tells The Story Of Her Face; Meet The Surgeon Behind The World's First Complete Facial Transplant; Dangerous Idea: Downloadable Selves; On Our Minds: Soccer in Brazil.

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0:00.0	It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strangeamps. Today, future faces.
0:08.0	The NSA has been collecting thousands of photos of faces every day as part of their new facial recognition surveillance.
0:16.0	Turns out your face is more unique than your fingerprint. Government agencies and private companies are now
0:21.9	racing to develop new programs to find and identify faces. Natasha Singer covers facial
0:28.4	recognition for the New York Times.
0:30.6	I think people don't know how widely it's being used and the fact that they are subject to
0:35.6	it. So for example, the majority of departments of motor vehicles in the United States now,
0:41.7	when you get a new license and they take your photograph, they're also doing facial recognition.
0:47.1	They're making what's called a face print.
0:49.0	And if you're on a major social network like Google Plus or Facebook,
0:53.7	and you have uploaded photos, then Facebook
0:57.0	has a feature called tag suggestion where you can name a person in one of your photos
1:02.4	and it will suggest, you know, when they reappear in other photos, it will suggest a name
1:07.0	tag for them. A face print is like a mathematical code of the topography of your face.
1:13.6	It's not a photograph, right? It extracts the facial landmarks and calculates a code for them.
1:20.4	And so once that's done, it can be used to identify people in subsequent photographs or in
1:26.1	stills from videos. How good are these face prints?
1:29.3	I mean, are they as foolproof at identifying people as a fingerprint?
1:34.3	It depends on the algorithm.
1:36.3	Some are quite good and some are not very good.
1:40.3	Facebook came out a few months ago and said that they were developing a system that's not
1:45.3	in commercial use yet called Deep Face, where their algorithm is much more powerful. In some cases,
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