- I look forward to using this technology on vacations when I want more info about an item. Imagine a link to Wikipedia just by pointing your iPhone at a structure or monument.
Today's video showing how it could work to get information about a person is even cooler. No matter where you are you will be truly on the web. Some could care less about this, but for a geek like me I think it's revolutionary.
What are your thoughts?07-26-2009 01:06 AMLike 0 - It's definitely revolutionary once more people know it's out there.
Once it gets more widespread appreciation it's going to be a way of life.07-26-2009 02:14 AMLike 0 - It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.07-26-2009 10:09 AMLike 0
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- I agree with the creepiness. Though that doesn't mean I won't use it. However, it is getting a little too Wall-E-esque for me. Pretty soon, we'll not only have screen in front of our face all the time, we'll also be lounging around in chairs in a spaceship, with our bone mass dwindling away while two little robots have a love affair back at the Earth that we ruined.
Just saying...07-27-2009 12:28 AMLike 0 - I agree with the creepiness. Though that doesn't mean I won't use it. However, it is getting a little too Wall-E-esque for me. Pretty soon, we'll not only have screen in front of our face all the time, we'll also be lounging around in chairs in a spaceship, with our bone mass dwindling away while two little robots have a love affair back at the Earth that we ruined.
Just saying...07-27-2009 12:40 AMLike 0 - It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.
Not going to happen.07-27-2009 03:05 AMLike 0 - It will be great for so many things! Especially the first time you go to a tweetup and don't know any of the attendees...just aim your iPhone at random strangers until you find who you're looking for. And meeting a stranger off Craigslist at the local B&N to sell something? Awesome.
Isn't knowing when they are brushing their teeth enough info? Is it necessary to watch them too?07-27-2009 03:07 AMLike 0 - icebike, evidently you are content knowing there are dozens of people in your area who share your interests in many things without ever getting to know them. Personally, I like to meet people with whom I share common interests. It's what's called a "social life." I still get together once a year for my spring break with people I met on forums 5 years ago. My best friend in the world is someone I met in a chat room 10 years ago. And now, thanks to tweetups, I have friends who come to my house weekly to watch Lost, (finally!) have local friends with whom to enjoy sushi every week or two, and have been invited to join an institution in the south that would previously have been out of my reach.
So stay home. No skin off my back.07-27-2009 10:25 AMLike 0 - Ah, sorry, that's not going to happen in your lifetime. Facial recognition takes HUGE databases and Monstrous processing power. If Apple object to Girls in swimsuits imagine how ape**** they will go over any application allowing anyone to fetch their details.
Not going to happen.
While a sequention search through a large collection of facial data could be timely depending on the amount of data that you've collected. The complexity of the search can be lowered by several orders of magnitude by taking other factors into account. If the recognizer makes moderate success in distinguishing between males and females the average success rate would be improved. If the program takes geography into account then the success rate could be improved some more. I won't go into a full list of how to improve the outcome of a facial search here but it can be done.
For processing power if one didn't want to gather their own network farm it can be rented. Microsoft just released their pricing for their cloud database and processing services (Azure)and there are other providers available too such as Amazon (I've still got a trial account I've yet to use).
Some one could put a prototype for such a system together quickly. Neurotechnology has a Windows Mobile Facial Recignition SDK. You can try it for free for 30 days. Omeron also licenses their facial recognition technology. The SDK can actually do a fair amount of recognition on a moderate powered Windows Mobile device on it's own. I've tried it ouw by feeding it photographs of my family members and then the software on my phone was able to successfully recognize them. That's just using the software in a stand alone environment with what ever power the Windows Mobile device I was using at the time could give. Now let's say you made a facebook crawler that was giving faces to the same algorithm running in a distributed computing environment. A phone could send a photograph of some ones face to the service and a few seconds later the service could respond with the identity of the person.07-27-2009 11:07 AMLike 0 -
- Sorry. Not the same scale. What can be done easily with tens to low hundreds breaks down rapidly with larger populations.07-27-2009 12:46 PMLike 0
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