Team Creates Footwear Recognition System

Zothecula writes "Facial recognition might be all the rage in giving computer systems the ability to ascertain the identity of individuals — what with most people having different facial features and all. But a team from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has taken a different approach to identify users of touch-based tabletop computers like Microsoft's Surface. Instead of focusing on the face, the team has looked in the opposite direction to develop a system known as Bootstrapper, which distinguishes between users based on their footwear ."

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Women look at shoes first; men look at asses first

[Zero__Kelvin]

"Seriously, the system is going to break the first time these developers are introduced to WOMEN."

The developers clearly are women. If it was developed by men it would be an ass recognition system.