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Engineers had to manually mark facial features. (3/9)

by Kaysia Reberger September 11, 2017, 5:29 pm

The technology used to place a box around a person’s face on a digital camera is actually not specific enough to perform the functions that these filters are able to do. In order to train the app to recognize specific facial features, engineers actually had to manually mark the individual facial features of thousands of sample photos.

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The basic technology behind it has been around for years.

Once the facial features are recognized, it creates a mask.

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