AI and a Recruiting Site
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Another bit of time to post. I’m working on a recruiting web site for the athletic department. It’s coming together very quickly. In my A.I. class, I’m going to write a face detection program using neural nets. This mostly consists of weight adjustments based on a test set of images that contain faces and images that don’t have any human faces. I heard it moves fairly quickly from another person in the class. I hope to start and finish it on Saturday.
April 3rd, 2006 at 4:46 pm
This sounds interesting. It got me thinking…
Just out of curiosity how well do you think such a program could recognize a particular person’s face? For say a level of biometric security for a laptop with a built in cam, but no built in fingerprint reader.
Or more interesting, as a way to also detect faces it has not seen and store them into a database for monitoring who is using a console and how often?
April 3rd, 2006 at 6:02 pm
Neural Nets are rather infant in comparison to the last topic for my class this semester. They learn very minimal amounts of details in a face. The actual solution you would want would be face recognition.
This could be easily implemented as a biometric as long as you thoroughly trained the program. This consists of either making sure you scan your face in the exact same location (i.e. lighting, emotion on the face, and other details we normally don’t consider), or perhaps you could generate a difference map to find your face in the image no matter the environmental situation.
I still have to get my hand dirty with computer vision topics. I should be able to give a better answer after the semester. It’s definitely interesting stuff.