The day that all women wished would never come is closing in, as an application that will be able to calculate a persons age is being developed.
Researchers at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center in Singapore "trained" a software so that it can calculate a persons age based on a huge photo database with pictures of people of known age from Google Images and Flickr.
At present, the software can calculate one's age with a five year precision, regardless of gender and race, but the scientists believe they can reduce this margin of error by a lot in the near future
The researcher Bingbing Ni said that his research could have many uses: "For example, digital signing could be installed at various shopping malls, so vending machines can offer age-targeted ads to consumers. Other uses may include prohibiting minors from buying alcohol and cigarettes, and the Internet from having access to inappropriate content.
The database from which supplies the software consists of a total collection of 77,000 images and 219,000 persons.The result of the study, which involved Zheng Song and Shuicheng Yan from the National University of Singapore, was published in IEEE
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