FaceAnalyzer. ‘The Only Automated Face Reader in the World.’
When instructions are followed carefully (straight on picture, expressionless face, even lighting), the Race Analysis describes what racial features are inherent in your face, not necessarily what race you are. Generally, people of a particular race will have racial features from many races. That means if you are east indian, you may have eastern european features, and vice versa. Your race analysis will reflect this.
US company Attrasoft has some pretty impressive looking face and photo recognition software called Image Finder which is actually kind of scary and reassuring at the same time.
On the one hand it’s scary to see just how easy it might be for the unscrupulous to track us all wherever we go, and on the other it’s nice to know that even if you grow a beard Mr Bad Man, there’s stuff around that should catch you.
‘The image database of known criminals: This database can contain an unlimited number of suspect photographs. Attrasoft can search this database using our photograph(s) or sketch(s) of the alleged suspect. The Attrasoft system searches approximately 10 photographs per second.’
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Wow, in Tokyo you can put your own face on a real postage stamp. What a cool idea.
Just head for one of the Post Office vending machines around Tokyo, pose for the camera, wait for the flash, and out it comes: a regular stamp and, attached to it, the very essence of you. Itsuma Tsurumi is mailing letters to her hometown so friends can see how she’s looking these days, a sort of postal Polaroid. ‘
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Face recognition technology developed at NEC and Samsung has just been approved for use in the upcoming MPEG-7 standard. MPEG-7, for those wot are interested, defines a set of tools that can be used to store and retrieve multimedia data. Expect some very clever surveillance systems to appear over the next few years!
‘MPEG-7 AFR (Advanced Face Recognition Descriptor)… is expected to deploy new services in the market of the spreading of digital broadcasting and the internet, such as video archives, home videos and surveillance systems. In addition, it realizes a matching speed capability of one million times per second on a conventional PC thus making it possible to retrieve a scene starring a specific person in approximately one second from a 24 hour video.’
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This would be cool if it could search through your image archive and tell if a certain person was in certain pictures.
What a pile of steaming….
Interesting the Chinese guy was of European origin (lol), and the lady from Korea who was 95% Chinese and 5% Korean. Oh, and the guy who sent in the same photo twice stating he was from different places (Russia and America), and the site came up with two different origins for him.
Yep, a bit dodgy I do agree.