Google Advances in Facial Recognition

In Forbes:   " .. Google: Our new system for recognizing faces is the best one ever ... 

Last week, a trio of Google  ...  researchers published a paper on a new artificial intelligence system dubbed FaceNet that it claims represents the most-accurate approach yet to recognizing human faces. FaceNet achieved nearly 100-percent accuracy on a popular facial-recognition dataset called Labeled Faces in the Wild, which includes more than 13,000 pictures of faces from across the web. Trained on a massive 260-million-image dataset, FaceNet performed with better than 86 percent accuracy. .... "
Recall my recent pieces on the neural network method called deep learning.