[kictanet] #10YearChallenge and data mining

[Grace Githaiga]

"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





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Grace Githaiga
Co-Convenor, Kenya ICT Action Network
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