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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."
Have the black person smile.
Oh, wait. Black people never smile on-camera.
Troll harder.
The number of ARM packages in the Debian repo vastly outnumber the "apps" on your iDevice.
Also, guess which device is rooted BY DEFAULT.
Seriously, what's your point? Who gives a shit about your ARM Debian packages? Noone sane is going to be using them on a phone. People don't want nor need command-line applications for a phone. People also aren't going to be using Gnome or KDE on a phone. They want a rich selection of applications optimized for their device.
Oh and, you've got that completely backwards. The amount of apps on the App Store outnumbers the amount of ALL PACKAGES (including libs and sources) for Debian/ARM by several orderes of magnitute.