Team Creates Footwear Recognition System

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday January 26, 2012 @08:59PM 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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First post. by Mal-2 · 2012-01-26 21:02 · 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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Team Creates Footwear Recognition System by jamesh · 2012-01-26 21:20 · Score: 4, Funny

Team Creates Footwear Recognition System
Did the team consist of Sheldon and Penny?
designed by the introverted, for the introverted by r00t · 2012-01-26 21:23 · Score: 5, Funny

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