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Kairos , a startup that launched earlier this year out of the Spring 2012 class of the NewMe Accelerator , has landed $500,000 in seed funding from a group of angel backers. The money will be put toward launching Kairos’ flagship app TimeClock , which launches in beta today. TimeClock uses facial recognition technology to identify employees paid on an hourly basis when they clock in on the job.
Kairos Lands $500K To Bring Facial Recognition Tech To Employee Time Clocks
By EDW Lynch on August 10, 2012
Facedeals, System Allows Automatic Facebook Check-ins With Facial Recognition
Microsoft figures out how to make a nearly perfect 3D model of the human face
Microsoft's system picks up the complex nuances of an actor's facial expressions. Image: Microsoft Research
How Google is teaching computers to see
Google’s Hangouts recognize people, even if they are just a photo. Google is attempting to teach computers to recognize human faces without telling the computing algorithms which faces are human. It’s a machine-learning problem made for this era of unstructured data and easy access to large compute clusters.
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