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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. It's not so bad... by raehl · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless you're looking pretty much straight-on towards the camera, this software doesn't appear to work. It does appear to be able to track a face over multiple frames if it can recognize it in one frame, but if you have 30 seconds where no suitable frame occurs, the software doesn't know who it is, even if it's pretty blatantly obvious to a human who it is.

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  2. Re:YRO? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 2, Informative

    Probably because most of the world's CCTV cameras are feeding us rather than old Star Trek episodes back to Orwell HQ...

  3. Re:Seven of Nine! by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 4, Informative

    (3) probably most important: out of copyright.

    Really?

  4. Re:anyone by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 2, Informative

    Ensign Expendable or Lieutenant Cannonfodder

    Just taking a wild guess here, but I'm sure the NCOs outdied the officers by an absurdly high ratio. Remember kids, shit rolls downhill.

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