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The Face Detector
Roland Piquepaille writes "Almost all human faces have common characteristics, such as two eyes and one mouth. Still, some people, affected by face blindness, cannot recognize one face from another one. So it's understandable that face recognition is a major challenge for computer vision systems. In "Facing facts in computer recognition,", the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that a team from Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute has developed a very accurate software to find faces within images. By analyzing only 768 pixels, the system can detect 93 percent of the faces in a set of images while falsely identifying four objects as faces. The Face Detector Demo is available online and you can submit an image for analysis and receive the results by e-mail. The technology will be used for security purposes, but also by digital photography companies who want to automatically reduce "red eye" effects. You'll find more details and references in this overview."
...to the Mars rovers.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
What I really want is one that is portable that will whisper the name of people into my ear so I never have to remember anyone's name ever again. Something with hooks into the FBI's most wanted list would be nice too (Hey you just walked by a guy who is worth 2 million if you turn him in).
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
Where's Waldo? :D
face-blindness has a direct correlation to breast size...
Though face detection is easy for most people, some suffer a perplexing disorder called face blindness, or prosopagnosia, which is an inability to discern the differences between faces...One such sufferer, who is part of a research study by Behrmann, can't recognize his own children when he picks them up from day care. He relies on the day care workers to bring his children to him; failing that, he carries a "cheat sheet" of photographs that can help him make out who's who.
We just found a candidate for the Most Embarassing Dad of the Year Award!
Dad: Hi, I'm here to pick up my son, Billy.
Day Care Worker: Sure, which one is he?
Dad: Uhhh... (pulls out photograph) I think he's the one one the left... no wait, in the middle. I'm not really sure.
Day Care Worker: Uh, OK, sir, whatever you say. Let me just leave the room and, uh, get Billy. (leaves room, dials 9-1-1. A few minutes pass)
Kid at Daycare: Hey Billy! The cops are arresting your dad again!
give it to blind people so they can know who they're talking to
Two guys walk into a convenient store.
Angry man 1: "Empty the cash register into this back now mutha f'er!"
Angry man 2: "Get down! _shots-fired-into-air_ All of you Get down on the floor!"
Face recognition computer to blind man: "You are now speaking to Ronald Reagan and Ronald Reagan."
Slashdot Syndrome: the sudden, extreme urge to correct someone in order to validate one's self.
So now they can link my face to my e-mail address? No thanks.
Walk up to someone you never met before, greet him by name, and ask him about all the various details of his life are going that you shouldn't know because you never met him before. It'd be a good way to freak people out, especially of your borg implants aren't particular noticable...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Target Identified:
Name: Darl McBride
Employer: SCO
Karma: -5000
Options: Disable target, bring to penguin HQ for further questioning
Brute force: Authorized and encouraged.