Face recognition program allows you to find any person on the network by photographing him

Now any person can be found in social networks, just by photographing his face.

The new Russian application compares pictures with profile photos on the social network VKontakte and establishes his identity with an accuracy of 70 percent.

A new face recognition app   could end anonymity in public places.

Thus, a person can take a photo of a stranger on the street, upload to the application and find your profile on the social network, while shops, advertisers and the police can recognize your face in the crowd and follow you through social networks.

After launch, the application in a short time gathered more than 500,000 users and processed more than 3 million searches.

The creators of the application are 26-year-old Artem Kukharenko and 29-year-old Alexander Kabakov.Unlike other face recognition programs, their algorithm allows you to quickly search in a large amount of data.The app gives the most appropriate match to the face in the photo along with 10 people that it might look like.Artem Kabakov believes that this application can make a breakthrough in the field of dating: “If you see a person you like, you can take a picture of him, find his identity and send a request to be added to friends ."In addition, it also helps to find similar people . For example, you can upload a photo of a celebrity that you like or your ex-lover, and find 10 similar people by sending them messages.Photographer from St. Petersburg Yevgeny Tsvetkov recently conducted a photo project, “ Your Face Is Big Data ”, photographing 100 random people who were sitting next to him in the subway . Then, using the Findface application, he tried to find them on the VKontakte social network.It turned out that it is quite easy to detect 60-70 percent of people aged 18 to 35 years old, a little more difficult with older people. Thus, even taking low-quality photographs, he was able to find out the personal details of their life, including hobbies, profession, status in relationships and habits. The creators of Find Face believe that such a program will among other things help in the investigation of crimes, identifying criminals on the street.

Find Face - face recognition program on the Internet

Find Face is a service with which you can find a VK profile on a photo . There are mobile applications for Android and iOS, as well as a web versionThe application allows you to do 30 free searches, and after that the service is paid.

The web version features a little more, and you can immediately see the person’s profileBest of all, the program recognizes photographs taken in daylight on an average smartphone, but is 2-3 times less accurate if you photograph strangers from afar. But by enlarging the picture, the efficiency increases again.The development of technology leads to the fact that less information remains hidden, and anonymity ends.

Advice:

· Experts advise putting something on your face, such as a hood, mask or glasses, to trick the camera , or to accept that in our society there is less and less space for personal space.

If you do not want any stranger to know about you, it is best to delete all the old photos from your account and leave a photo that makes it difficult to recognize you.