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Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900
ptresadern writes "Researchers at the University of Manchester this week revealed a detailed face tracker that runs in real-time on the Nokia N900 mobile phone. Unlike existing mobile face trackers (video) that give an approximate position and scale of the face, Manchester's embedded Active Appearance Model accurately tracks a number of landmarks on and around the face such as the eyes, nose, mouth and jawline. The extra level of detail that this provides potentially indicates who the user is, where they are looking and how they are feeling. The face tracker was developed as part of a face- and voice-verification system for controlling access to mobile internet applications such as e-mail, social networking and on-line banking."
When are you guys going to get that 'a regular OS with all of its functionality' ... isn't what works well on a phone, which is why people like the iPhone.
Stop trying to treat your phone like a desktop ... or even a sub notebook and you'll be a lot happier AND more productive.
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You can say exactly the same about laptops, and somehow quite a lot of people use them.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
It's amazing how you managed to be spot on, but your signature is showing the sad, sad truth of the N900-fanboyish moderators.
I tried evening things out, by spending 15 mod points in this topic alone (and mainly the responses to this comment thread), but as has been noticed for ages when I was a mod on t.m.o and chanop in #maemo, one is not allowed to criticise the N900 in public.
N900 Fanboy: "I'm not a fanboy, I just love my device"
Oh, and from #maemo
(crashanddie) Slashdot has one article about the N900 doing something, and all the fucking fanbois are out
(crashanddie) The few guys who are trying to tell the truth have been modded to oblivion, either "troll" or "flamebait", and all the "I luvz my little n900, it has xterm" are marked as +5 insightful
(pupnik_) N900 Jeopardy! Answer = "LA LA LA LA LA! Not a problem! Don't want to hear about it!"
(pupnik_) Question = "How did nokia deal with pulseaudio taking 12-20% cpu?"
(pupnik_) that would be a specific criticism, crashanddie
(Jaffa) pupnik_: Or "how did Nokia deal with hildon-desktop regression causing 10-15% CPU?"
(Jaffa) pupnik_: Or "how have Nokia helped developers migrate from Maemo to MeeGo with 'legacy' applications?"
(pupnik_) they need to fund a 'this needs to get fixed' contract-based system imo
(crashanddie) pupnik_: Or how Ari Jaaski was talking about "how nokia was skeptical about Open Source, but Maemo and the community convinced them?"
(Jaffa) pupnik_: Or "how did Nokia make such a fast CPU have a laggy and unresponsive UI; which gets worse with updates?"
(crashanddie) Or how Nokia is so free to share their code that everyone can contribute to the code and make the device better?
(crashanddie) because, you know, throwing code out on gitorious and saying "This is dead fish now, we don't care about it anymore" is really "the spirit of open source"
Fanboy reponse?
(Venemo) crashanddie: actually, it was an experiment, and it was successful
and
(Venemo) crashanddie: fortunately, this situation is improved with MeeGo
Arhahahahahahahaha. At least, it's still as funny.
--crashanddie (posting anon to saveguard the mod points)
>> "A few random apps" = over 250,000. How many apps were there in Maemo repos again?
Call me when you have an app which makes phone calls functioning on your jesus phone from your 250K plus 'apps'? Till then, go troll on digg.com. Jobs' dicksuckers are out in large numbers today.