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Fix dead LFW benchmark link#1672

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Summary

  • Replaces the dead Labeled Faces in the Wild benchmark link with the UMass-hosted LFW paper PDF suggested in Dead link in readme #1670.

Fixes #1670.

Validation

  • Confirmed http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/ no longer resolves.
  • Confirmed https://people.cs.umass.edu/~elm/papers/lfw.pdf returns HTTP 200.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the README to replace a dead “Labeled Faces in the Wild” (LFW) benchmark link with a working UMass-hosted LFW paper PDF, addressing the broken URL reported in #1670.

Changes:

  • Replaced the non-resolving LFW benchmark URL with https://people.cs.umass.edu/~elm/papers/lfw.pdf.

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Comment thread README.md
Built using [dlib](http://dlib.net/)'s state-of-the-art face recognition
built with deep learning. The model has an accuracy of 99.38% on the
[Labeled Faces in the Wild](http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/) benchmark.
[Labeled Faces in the Wild](https://people.cs.umass.edu/~elm/papers/lfw.pdf) benchmark.
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Dead link in readme

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