[hamdingers]

From the video this appears to be face detection, with some cute strings attached at random to the detected faces.

I don't see evidence of facial recognition.

[secretsatan]

Aphex twin did this years ago, replacing his sinister face over the faces of the crowd at his concerts

[pier25]

how did the code crop faces without facial recognition?

[pcl]

In the industry, that’s known as face (or facial) detection, which is a different problem than face recognition.

Face recognition means computing which individual from some other database of people a particular face belongs to.

There’s also face tracking — detecting a face in an image and then tracking the same face across subsequent images. Which is often implemented by using a face recognition approach, but without any predefined catalog of people — you just dynamically fill up your face database as faces appear in the image sequence / video source.

[dotancohen]

It was detecting faces, not recognizing them.

Recognition implies associating the faces with an ID.

[Eisenstein]

'Face detection' means it can detect faces. 'Face recognition' means it recognizes the faces. A specific example of the difference: license plate detection will detect the presence of a license plate; license plate recognition will tell you the number on that plate.

[theshrike79]

https://yolov8.com/

It detects objects and gives you the bounding box. Then you draw a square on it and add a label.

No fancy LLM needed, just old fashioned machine learning models.

[Gigachad]

Parent comment is saying the system wasn’t linking the faces to real names, just detecting a face in general.

[MyOutfitIsVague]

It displays the faces on the screen, and you recognize them.