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Team Creates Footwear Recognition System

Posted by samzenpus on from the these-boots-were-made-for-coding dept.

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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  1. First post. by Mal-2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:First post. by jamesh · · Score: 2

      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.

      It could be useful at nightclubs though "Seriously... those shoes with _that_ dress? You have to be kidding me. Go away".

    2. Re:First post. by mwvdlee · · Score: 2

      "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Davina".

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  2. Before you break into a mans computer... by jamesh · · Score: 2

    Before you break into a mans computer, first walk a mile in his shoes.

  3. Team Creates Footwear Recognition System by jamesh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Team Creates Footwear Recognition System

    Did the team consist of Sheldon and Penny?

  4. designed by the introverted, for the introverted by r00t · · Score: 5, Funny

    How do you recognize an extroverted engineer? He looks at **your** shoes.

  5. Future email to sysadmins by rcasha2 · · Score: 2

    "I think someone stole my shoes. I need new shoes."

    "My shoes were hacked!"

  6. Women look at shoes first; men look at asses first by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "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.

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  7. Rule 36 by Kozar_The_Malignant · · Score: 2

    Techie shoe fetishists?

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