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Analyzing (All of) Star Trek With Face Recognition

Posted by kdawson on from the sees-you-when-you're-sleeping dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Accurate face recognition is coming. Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, a face recognition start-up spun out from Carnegie Mellon University, has posted a tech demo showing an analysis of the entire original Star Trek series using face recognition. The online visualization includes various annotated clips of the series with clickable thumbnails of each character's appearance. They also have a separate page showing the full data of all the prominent characters in every episode including extracting thumbnails of each appearance." Their software can recognize frontal or near-frontal face instances.

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  1. anyone by ionix5891 · · Score: 5, Funny

    know the name of that red shirted guy?

    1. Re:anyone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      know the name of that red shirted guy?

      They had names?

    2. Re:anyone by LargeMythicalReptile · · Score: 4, Funny

      You mean Ensign Ricky?

    3. Re:anyone by prefec2 · · Score: 5, Funny

      It is either Ensign Expendable or Lieutenant Cannonfodder. But I'm not quite sure.

    4. Re:anyone by RazzleDazzle · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm not even supposed to be here. I'm just "Crewman Number Six." I'm expendable. I'm the guy in the episode who dies to prove how serious the situation is. I've gotta get outta here.

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      ZERO ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ZERO ONE ONE! Just brushing up for my next big invention: Ethernet over Voice (EoV)
    5. Re:anyone by stonedcat · · Score: 2, Funny

      They're all dead dave, everybody is dead dave.

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      You can't take the sky from me.
    6. Re:anyone by ceoyoyo · · Score: 2, Funny

      Crewman Expendable. The officers very, very rarely died. And when they did they came back to life later.

  2. Unfair to Klingons! by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 3, Funny

    We forehead-challenged beings demand you stop your software discrimination!

  3. Re:ok ... by LordKaT · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jesus, that's a lot of work to go through to figure out that Bruce Campbell has been in a shitload of B-movies.

  4. Re:ok ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Switch to wikipedia. It loads faster and has more useful and comprehensive information.

  5. Re:Fair use? by Shikaku · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am a female lawyer you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:It's not so bad... by bughunter · · Score: 5, Funny

    I imagine this scene would cause a few problems for the software, too.

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    I can see the fnords!
  7. Re:Doesn't work well by Burdell · · Score: 5, Funny

    The system seems to fail when he arches his eyebrows.

    Fascinating!

  8. Cylons or Dollhouse by scrib · · Score: 2, Funny

    Which is scarier?
    Approaching Cylons or your consciousness on a WD Green drive?

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    Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
  9. Re:Doesn't work well by karnal · · Score: 4, Funny

    defiantly quite impressive.

    I had to read that twice to fully understand that you may have meant "definitely." Or perhaps, you do think it's defiantly quite impressive. God, that's even hard to type.

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    Karnal
  10. Re:OT: sig reply by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    00101010? That's just gibberish.

    01010100?? AAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

  11. Re:Doesn't work well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Bones: "Please Spock don't say it's fascinating.

    Spock: "No doctor fascinating is a word that I use when I discover something unexpected. It is; however, interesting."