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Picking Out Faces In The Crowd.(The Technologist; SECURITY)(Brief article)
Cameras may be everywhere, but recognizing faces in the images is difficult for both people and machines alike. Test subjects do well at recognizing the faces of people they know in photographs. (Tony Blair is as easy to spot in a profile taken in a dark room as in a full frontal shot under the sun's glare.) But they do poorly at matching images of an unfamiliar person taken in varying light conditions, resolution, quality and camera angle. Computers have the same problem. The face-recognition system used by the Australian Customs Service, for instance, scored a poor 54 percent hit rate in a test by University of Glasgow psychologist Rob ...
- A test for the hit rate in binary response models.
- Magazine article from: International Journal of Market Research Franses, Philip Hans March 22, 2000 700+ words
...correctly classified cases, that is, the hit rate. This paper brings to the attention a...for the statistical significance of this hit rate. An application to a binary brand choice...binary response models is the so-called hit rate. This hit rate is defined as the ...
- ANALYSIS: Managers' hit rate no better than 50-50, say researchers.
- Magazine article from: Fund Strategy December 1, 2008 700+ words
...measurements of fund manager skill: what it terms the hit rate and the win/loss ratio. The hit rate shows the number of correct decisions as a...really good managers only managed to get a 53% hit rate, which was a surprise as we expected the best...
- Basis100 Launches PVIPlus to Extend Valuation Hit Rate.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 30, 2000 700+ words
...known prior value. Index-based valuations can be used in tandem with the PASS service to improve the overall return or "hit" rate for valuation requests nationwide. "PVI and PVIPlus are great, cost-effective tools for valuation when either the subject...
- Lifetime, Cablevision hit rate Snafu. (This Just In).(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Multichannel News February 18, 2002 700+ words
NEW YORK -- Lifetime Television has evidently hit a snag in rate renegotiations with Cablevision Systems Corp. Though both parties indicated that they were still negotiating last week, a Feb. 15 New York Post report said Cablevision had already nixed the female-targeted service's gambit for a 150
- Officials, firms hit rate hike They say inflation wasn't a threat; slowdown...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Kimberly Blanton, Globe Staff February 3, 1995 700+ words
The hike in interest rates by the Federal Reserve sparked a backlash from business and politicians who said the move would dampen consumer appetites and needlessly slow the economy. The central bank on Wednesday raised short-term interest rates by half a point. It was the seventh rate hike by the
- STATE'S AUTO INSURERS HIT RATE SETTING
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe Douglas M. Bailey, Globe Staff August 20, 1987 700+ words
Massachusetts auto insurers came out swinging yesterday and accused the state's Division of Insurance of making "persistent, disastrous errors" that has cost the industry more than $840 million in underwriting losses since 1978. In a blistering attack against the state's rate setting process,
- NIMO STOCK TO TAKE A HIT; RATE REQUESTS WILL DROP.(BUSINESS)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) December 28, 1994 700+ words
Byline: Dow Jones News Service SYRACUSE A previously announced plan by Niagara Mohawk Power Corp. to eliminate about 3,100 jobs will cost about $195 million, or 89 cents a share, in the fourth quarter, the utility said Tuesday. Niagara Mohawk announced the staff reduction in 1993 as a way to save
- Jacobs Maintains Petrochem and Power Global Contract Hit Rate, an Industrial...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 23, 2007 700+ words
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). Jacobs Engineering (NYSE:JEC) continues to rack a range of key project management services and E+P+C (engineering, construction and procurement) contracts in global markets. For details, view the entire
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