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Systems and methods for facial representation

Recently published patent for Facebook for method to construct a 3D face from your photographs:

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can align face images, classify face images, and verify face images by employing a deep neural network (DNN). A 3D-aligned face image can be generated from a 2D face image. An identity of the 2D face image can be classified based on provision of the 3D-aligned face image to the DNN. The identity of the 2D face image can comprise a feature vector.

Facebook could become a database of faces, with concerning implications. Avatar generation for products and services would fit in well with their Oculus acquisition, but a dataset of mass profiling is concerning.

Strangely, the patent fill is unavailable to download (although the written details can be found here, with some badly scanned images here).