WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
Did you every wonder how Snapchat is so accurately able to give you a dog nose? Well, Vox did the research so you don't have to!
The technology came from a Ukrainian startup called Looksery, which Snapchat acquired in September, 2015.
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The filters use computer vision, which is the same technology you use when you deposit a check with your phone, how Facebook knows who's in your photos, and how self-driving cars can do their thang.
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The first step is detection. How does the computer know which part of the image is a face when all it receives is the data for the color value of each individual pixel? Well, it uses areas of contrast between light and dark parts of the image to identify the face.
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