The Face Recognition Algorithm That Finally Outperforms Humans – The Physics arXiv Blog

Everybody has had the experience of not recognising someone they know--changes in pose, illumination and expression all make the task tricky. So it's not surprising that computer vision systems have similar problems. Indeed, no computer vision system matches human performance despite years of work by computer scientists all over the world. That's not to say that face recognition systems are poor. The best systems can beat human performance in ideal conditions.