Face recognition on facebook

The experience that users of the social network Facebook live when sharing a video, is about to take a leap forward through face recognition in video recording. Currently the developers of this page are incubating the next generation of face recognition and until now this technology only works on the page for the detection of faces in photos.

Face recognition on Facebook

This option promises and aims to facilitate the search for the people who compose a video, in the same way that it is currently done with the photos, so if you want to see someone specific within the video, it will be enough to write their name and automatically We will jump to the scene where the character is. Or if we want to go to a particular minute of the video. On the other hand, and as a complement to this new update, there have been news that it will also be possible to automatically activate subtitles in videos without adding an extra file to it. The latter could be potentially useful, for those individuals who have a disability or to find out what the audio of a video says that we cannot play in public places.

How does this automatic face recognition work on Facebook videos?

The system works very similar to the recognition of faces in photos or tagging suggestions, what Facebook does is compare the faces of unknown or new people, with others preloaded in a database, such as those tagged by the same user, or by friends of the user's friends, or third parties that tag the person in question, since Facebook works as an interconnected social network, counting an immense amount of stored data to locate the name of each person, being the same, capable of determining automatically the people who are present in a specific video.