Russian startup N-Tech Lab won the world championship in face recognition MegaFace Benchmark organized by the University of Washington. The algorithm, created by Russian developers managed to bypass more than 100 solutions from its competitors, including program FaceNet, created by Google.
N-Tech.Lab team created a unique algorithm based on neural network technology (solutions, based on the principle of functioning and organization of biological neural networks i.e. the networks of nerve cells of a living organism), which allows to recognize a set of individual features of a human face. The experts acknowledged the Russian system designed for the databases of more than a million photos to be the most accurate. Its recognition accuracy amounts to 73.3%.
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