Thank you Grace. A more expounded view of the underlying principle in my article below.... Facebook 10 year Challenge- Welcome to Artificial Intelligence - https://www.predictiveanalytics.co.ke/blog/?p=110 On Wed, 16 Jan 2019, 22:56 Grace Githaiga via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke wrote:
"If you use social media, you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures, mostly from 10 years ago and this year.
Imagine that you wanted to train a facial recognition algorithm on age-related characteristics and, more specifically, on age progression (e.g., how people are likely to look as they get older). Ideally, you'd want a broad and rigorous dataset with lots of people's pictures. It would help if you knew they were taken a fixed number of years apart—say, 10 years....
In other words, thanks to this meme, there’s now a very large dataset of carefully curated photos of people from roughly 10 years ago and now."
Read more on: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-10-year-meme-challenge/
Best regards
-- Grace Githaiga Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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