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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 ."
If I don't get first post, I guess I was busy changing my shoes.
Seriously, the system is going to break the first time these developers are introduced to WOMEN.
How is the Riemann zeta function like Trump rallies? Both have an endless number of trivial zeros.
Insert the obligatory comment about how one could easily fool this sytem and therefore their research is completely useless. The researchers did not think about people changing their shoes, but the slashdotters did!
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Before you break into a mans computer, first walk a mile in his shoes.
Team Creates Footwear Recognition System
Did the team consist of Sheldon and Penny?
How do you recognize an extroverted engineer? He looks at **your** shoes.
i honestly thought there would be sensors in the floor, to determine foot size, gate, and pressure differences while walking and standing.
honestly though this seems more like an exercise than a full fledged effort at the problem.
I'm sure I've seen this on one of the many CSI cities already: the wall screen flashes pictures of shoes from the national strategic shoe database, until it stops with a match. Guilty person found.
Hmmm . . . Hasso Plattner? SAP founder? What does SAP want to do with this footwear recognition system . . . ?
Half seriously, why not get a bloodhound to sniff the shoes? It should be able to recognize someone who is naughty or someone who is nice, friend or foe, really fast.
Although, when the poor critter has to smell my shoes in the summer, it would roll over and die . . .
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You might as well classify people by their choice in beverages.
People do that all the time.
which is totally what she said
**idle**
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"I think someone stole my shoes. I need new shoes."
"My shoes were hacked!"
The developers clearly are women. If it was developed by men it would be an ass recognition system.
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Microsoft's Scarface, yes that is how I first read it, honestly. That it may also be considered offensive, I take that as a bonus.
What can you think of rhyming with "Microsoft's Scarface"?
And it will work so much better than facial recognition, because no two people wear the same shoes. And people always wear the same pair of shoes to play games.
Who thought this was a good idea. Most shoes are mass produced. I bought mine off the shelf at a store that had 10 more just like them in various sizes. Exactly who was it who thought that what type of footwear someone wears would be unique to that person.
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i can tell you right now that they have gotten a patent on this already and probably for recognizing everything from socks to shirts to hair styles.
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So, they watch Big Bang in Germany?
Or are the Big Bang writers secret followers of Hackerdom?
Bazinga!
Anything is possible given time and money.
Techie shoe fetishists?
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Didn't Penny already create an app for this?
If this could determine shoe size, then there will be a sudden demand for engineers and scientists with tiny feet working for the defense department. You could fake someone's iris and fingerprints, but unless you can fit into a very small pair of shoes, you're not going to have much luck. And that would probably eliminate a good portion of the American population from defense contracting.
So, they could install these sensors to track me from place to place without my knowledge?
Hmm.... [tiptoes away]
Bootstrapper, allow me to introduce you to the modern miracle of mass production. Mass production, meet bootstrapper. OK, now, break's over, mass production -- get back to work.
Japanese researchers have recently created a system which identifies drivers by recognizing their asses in the driver's seat:
http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20111213D13JSN01.htm
Seriously, an ass recognition system would break the first time it was introduced to WOMEN! OHH!
But they do not do it in order to secure whatever type of computer system they happen to be using.
Resolution?
I didn't say it was a valid concept, I just said that people do it! People are stupid. :p
which is totally what she said