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That would be the killer app for Google Glass. Not just for your situation, but for salesmen, customer service reps, security guards, politicians, or anyone who

That would be the killer app for Google Glass. Not just for your situation, but for salesmen, customer service reps, security guards, politicians, or anyone who needs to recognize lots of people, recall names, and bring up an instant profile about the person standing in front of them. (Granted, even this application has serious overtones of societal surveillance.) EDIT: Anyone care to speculate on why Google Glass doesn't do this? Surely the processing capability is there.

ksenzee 11y ago
Google Glass bans facial recognition apps[0]. I've tweeted them about getting an exception for assistive tech but I've never pursued it any further[1]. [0] https://developers.google.com/glass/policies?hl=en https://developers.google.com/glass/policies?hl=en [1] https://twitter.com/googleglass/status/463838878143492096 https://twitter.com/googleglass/status/463838878143492096
- 15155 11y ago
  A great example of "you don't own your hardware," or "you own your hardware with a hundred strings attached (probably to the software)" RMS called this one.
- caskance 11y ago
  Google Glass specifically, yes. There will be other products with the same form factor that don't have the same restriction. And you can always just take your chances with sideloading an app even if Google themselves aren't willing to distribute it.
OkGoDoIt 11y ago
I briefly worked with a company that made a facial recognition app for Google Glass (http://www.nametag.ws http://www.nametag.ws). Google officially banned us but you could still sideload it. The two major issues were assembling the database of faces (we used mainly LinkedIn photos but you really need multiple photos per person in different light/angles to train it well) and hardware performance (we had to do processing server side but even the basic part running on Glass killed the battery and made it run very hot). The hardware is Glass is basically an underclocked original Moto Droid (the one that launched Android 2.0), and is extremely underpowered for doing local face recognition on a large corpus of faces. I imagine a Glass-like device created a few years from now could be much more viable for this sort of thing. As for the database of people, there are companies that will sell you that (FullContact, Spokeo, Pipl, AllThePeople.net, etc) although the photo quality can still be an issue.
- ksenzee 11y ago
  I didn't realize the Glass was quite so underpowered. Somehow I feel better knowing the hardware hasn't yet caught up to the need.
finance-geek 11y ago
Forget about Google Glass banning facial recognition...any CV-type activity is too process-intensive. It will burn thru the Glass battery and the entire unit becomes stove-hot in 20minutes. I know because this is exactly the problem I tackled for three months (I was doing Glass-based CV for hand gesture recognition) Glass, the current version, is not meant for CV-intensive operations.

ksenzee 11y ago

Google Glass bans facial recognition apps[0]. I've tweeted them about getting an exception for assistive tech but I've never pursued it any further[1]. [0] https://developers.google.com/glass/policies?hl=en https://developers.google.com/glass/policies?hl=en [1] https://twitter.com/googleglass/status/463838878143492096 https://twitter.com/googleglass/status/463838878143492096

15155 11y ago
A great example of "you don't own your hardware," or "you own your hardware with a hundred strings attached (probably to the software)" RMS called this one.
caskance 11y ago
Google Glass specifically, yes. There will be other products with the same form factor that don't have the same restriction. And you can always just take your chances with sideloading an app even if Google themselves aren't willing to distribute it.

OkGoDoIt 11y ago

I briefly worked with a company that made a facial recognition app for Google Glass (http://www.nametag.ws http://www.nametag.ws). Google officially banned us but you could still sideload it. The two major issues were assembling the database of faces (we used mainly LinkedIn photos but you really need multiple photos per person in different light/angles to train it well) and hardware performance (we had to do processing server side but even the basic part running on Glass killed the battery and made it run very hot). The hardware is Glass is basically an underclocked original Moto Droid (the one that launched Android 2.0), and is extremely underpowered for doing local face recognition on a large corpus of faces. I imagine a Glass-like device created a few years from now could be much more viable for this sort of thing. As for the database of people, there are companies that will sell you that (FullContact, Spokeo, Pipl, AllThePeople.net, etc) although the photo quality can still be an issue.

ksenzee 11y ago
I didn't realize the Glass was quite so underpowered. Somehow I feel better knowing the hardware hasn't yet caught up to the need.

finance-geek 11y ago

Forget about Google Glass banning facial recognition...any CV-type activity is too process-intensive. It will burn thru the Glass battery and the entire unit becomes stove-hot in 20minutes. I know because this is exactly the problem I tackled for three months (I was doing Glass-based CV for hand gesture recognition) Glass, the current version, is not meant for CV-intensive operations.