This past May we unveiled the Visual Explorer TV News Public Figures Embedding Database that contains precomputed embeddings for major public figures that can be used to search for appearances of them across selected television news channels. To the existing database of Biden, Carlson, Putin, Trump and Zelenskyy, today we add Ron DeSantis & Barack Obama:

cd /dev/shm/EMBED/SEARCH/KNOWNFACES
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/DonaldTrump.json
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/JoeBiden.json
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/TuckerCarlson.json
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/VladimirPutin.json
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/VolodymyrZelenskyy.json
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/BarackObama.json
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/data.gdeltproject.org/blog/2022-tv-news-visual-explorer/faceembeddb/RonDeSantis.json

A reminder that creating your own signatures is as simple as following the installation directions for the Face Embedding Server and then running:

time find /dev/shm/EMBED/KNOWNFACES/ -depth -name "*.jpg" | parallel --eta "curl -s -f -X POST http://localhost:8088/faceembed -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"id\": \"{/.}\", \"file\":\"{}\"}' > {.}.json"