There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of pictures of me on the internet already. I certainly don't care if this site has one, and I couldn't care less about its transfer being encrypted.
This. My girlfriend was happily uploading picture after picture until I asked her semi-rhetorically "I wonder what they're doing with all those uploaded pictures?" and after thinking about that for a second she closed the tab.
>In addition to age and gender, we also got additional information such the User Agent string of the users of the web site, the latitude and longitude of location from where the picture was uploaded and more. This is represented in following JSON document.
Seems like they really don't need to know where you were when you took the picture. But they gather that data anyway. :)
While I absolutely agree with the sentiment, I must point out that they accidently have SSL, even if they don't know it, because CloudFlare. It's just not forced, which is unfortunate. And yeah, the lack of privacy stuff is concerning.
I have a big ol' beard and it guessed my age (32) to within one year. It thought my wife and sister were 10-15 years older than they really are, and it thinks all my kids are girls.
I am often told that I look very young for my age, and people generally guess my age several years lower than it is. This tool guessed the correct age right away, which really impressed me. Thanks for the confidence boost Microsoft!
The accompanying article is also very interesting and well written to be readable by someone who isn't totally up to date with the latest in facial recognition software.
"I am often told that I look very young for my age, and people generally guess my age several years lower than it is."
Ditto, except this tool suggested I was three years older than I was at the time. Of note is that the photo was taken three years ago, so it's correct now. However, that was pre-beard, which generally ages people, so ... I don't know what to think.
Same here, but I'm 25 and the tool guessed 20,21,27,27. I guess the average is correct-ish.
In my case, the old guesses are when there is bright light or when my head is slightly turned. The younger guesses are with regular room brightness 100% front face.
Same here; though the guess was nine years older than I am! I am just going to assume that they don't have enough folks that look like me in their dataset.
I'm curious to hear more about the accuracy of their machine learning algorithm though. I'll need to read into that later.
I uploaded a photo with a picture of myself (I'm 25) and my 11-year old sister. I got guessed as 44, she was guessed at 74.
I know I look older than my age (though I wouldn't think 19 years older), but my 11-year-old sister coming up as 74 was surprising. What's 63 years, give or take?
Just going by the test images it seems to rate everything about 5 years younger than what I would guess (people and their kids, kids being the same age and obviously not twins).
With that said, it guessed my age nearly spot on. When I get carded most people think I am far younger.
Everyone here is getting judged younger; I must be the only one who it thinks is actually older. I am 34, but it thinks I am 36 to (in very bright lighting) 56. It seems to be closest to believing that I'm 39.
From one photo it guessed 24, from another it guessed 52, both less than my true age. I'm sure it will improve, but that's not very impressive.
Having said that, assuming it's fully automated, it is actually impressive that it should be attempting anything like this at all. Not that many years ago it would have been completely infeasible to anything of the sort.
Did you try it? Because in using several pictures of me and other people I know it seemed wholly inaccurate. If they were cheating, they're not very good cheaters.
I thought it was doing this with the first picture of myself I tried, because it was a picture from a few years ago that guessed my current age. After trying another, 5 year old picture that is the portrait I use for social networks and it guessed that I was younger I figured this wasn't the case :).
I used two photos of me both taken the same day (corporate headshots that both appear on wedsites and in social media with my name), and it returned different answers. Both answers were significantly off.
I think it might not be entirely clear what this site represents. It's actually quick demo of ML services available on Azure. I think it uses Deep Learning and the power of it is to demonstrate that you can wire up something like this yourself without write a line of code for deep learning algorithms or even owning any servers at all for heavy GPU processing. I wish they had put code for this website on Github so people can tweak and spawn new versions.
FWIW, I'm a 22-year-old man, and it consistently puts me in my 40s. I might look a little older than I am, but not by that much... I suspect you and I (and many others) just have faces that don't agree with the classifier.
I'm at a family thing so just tried it on about 5 people in a row. My two daughters it got 100%. My mother in law was guessed to be 10 years younger than she is (she was happy). My father in law was spot on (early 60s). This is pretty impressive. (I should note that it was VERY bad with dark/poorly lit shots with the eyes hard to see so we moved to a naturally lit space.)
The results on every photo I tried were ludicrously wrong. The closest it got on photos of me was about five years older than me, but it ran anywhere up to 20 years too old.
The same thing on photos of others I tried: a 22-year old man was estimated to be 49, a fifty-year-old woman--who is generally considered to look young for her age--to be 69. Those are ages that no one would ever guess based on looks.
So I'd say the algorithm needs a little more work.
I'm in my early twenties, as are most of my friends. But it consistently guesses we're 10-20 years older than that. I wonder whether that's to do with the population it was trained on?
OTOH, we're all PhD students, so maybe we're all just stressed out and look old.
Interestingly, I have long hair, which I think is why it sometimes misclassifies me as female. And when it does that, it seems to consistently give me a younger age.
That's ok, I'm 37 and it guessed I was 81 in one photo and in two others, it couldn't detect my face at all. To be fair, I was wearing a bike helmet in the 81 image, sunglasses in one failed image, and a baseball cap in the third.
OTOH, my wife will be pleased to know it underestimated her age by a decade.
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But we are the techies who will remind people: "don't forget that's not encrypted", "don't forget they might re-use your photograph".
Seems like they really don't need to know where you were when you took the picture. But they gather that data anyway. :)
The accompanying article is also very interesting and well written to be readable by someone who isn't totally up to date with the latest in facial recognition software.
Ditto, except this tool suggested I was three years older than I was at the time. Of note is that the photo was taken three years ago, so it's correct now. However, that was pre-beard, which generally ages people, so ... I don't know what to think.
I'm curious to hear more about the accuracy of their machine learning algorithm though. I'll need to read into that later.
I know I look older than my age (though I wouldn't think 19 years older), but my 11-year-old sister coming up as 74 was surprising. What's 63 years, give or take?
With that said, it guessed my age nearly spot on. When I get carded most people think I am far younger.
This is much more interesting.
Having said that, assuming it's fully automated, it is actually impressive that it should be attempting anything like this at all. Not that many years ago it would have been completely infeasible to anything of the sort.
Still, I'm definitely not 24.
Using some stock photographs of front-facing actors, it gets less accurate the more detailed the shot is.
I have also tried with photos of younger cousins and grandmother, with very close results
Guessed 27 for http://www.searchdaimon.com/div/Runar_Buvik_smal.jpg
Guessed 35 for http://www.searchdaimon.com/div/Runar_Buvik_Causal.jpg
Both pictures was taken the same week if I recall correctly.
The same thing on photos of others I tried: a 22-year old man was estimated to be 49, a fifty-year-old woman--who is generally considered to look young for her age--to be 69. Those are ages that no one would ever guess based on looks.
So I'd say the algorithm needs a little more work.
Told me age 25. I'm flattered. ;)
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OTOH, we're all PhD students, so maybe we're all just stressed out and look old.
Interestingly, I have long hair, which I think is why it sometimes misclassifies me as female. And when it does that, it seems to consistently give me a younger age.
OTOH, my wife will be pleased to know it underestimated her age by a decade.