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PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos (techcrunch.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the continuously-updating dept.

Baron_Yam shares a report from TechCrunch, which details PornHub's use of machine learning to ID actors and acts in its videos: The computer vision system can identify specific actors in scenes and even identifies various positions and attributes. While it is obviously very difficult to describe the feature set for a family audience, the system can identify individual performers in real time -- in the demo here it recognizes one performer even from the side -- and it can also identify sex acts. Facial detection is nothing new, even for mobile devices, but this system goes one step further by categorizing videos and images based on various attributes. This means you'll be able find favorites by name or characteristics, a feat that once require prodigious amounts of data entry.

"So far we've used the model on about 500k featured videos which includes user submitted and we plan to scan the whole library in the beginning of 2018," said Price. "Very shortly, the technology will also be used to detect various sex positions / categories and be able to properly tag them as well."

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  1. Idea! by Comen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Now all they need to do is develop an App where you upload a picture of a girl you took a picture of and it finds the closest porn match! = $

    1. Re:Idea! by Northdot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Scarily, once they have their database, that is completely possible if you're talking a facial match. Facial. hehe

  2. Innovation by budsetr · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Porn! The driving force of innovation on the internet!

  3. It has always been true by Weaselmancer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Porn has always led the industry. Always.

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    rediculous.
  4. the jokes, they write themselves! by sootman · · Score: 5, Funny

    "... the system can identify individual performers... and it can also identify sex acts."

    So it can do facial detection and, um, facial detection?

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  5. Darn! There goes my job! by jsrjsr · · Score: 5, Funny

    And I was getting so good at recognizing actresses, too!

  6. Damn Computers by CanadianMacFan · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have even taken over watching porn now.

  7. Science Marches On by JustAnotherOldGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "PornHub Uses Computer Vision To ID Actors, Acts In Its Videos"

    Science Marches On (driven by the unquenchable desire for more boobies)

    What a time to be alive.

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