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When facial recognition fails, it usually looks pretty weird. Like it will identify faces in the knots and grain patterns of a wooden wall behind somebody. It
by otakucode 8y ago
When facial recognition fails, it usually looks pretty weird. Like it will identify faces in the knots and grain patterns of a wooden wall behind somebody. It's really a very ineffective technology and it's disturbing that it gets sold as something you could use to justify locking someone in a cage over. Machines with pareidolia are not good tools.
- zo1 8y agoWhen people speak of "facial recognition", they speak of faces being compared to other faces. What you're mentioning is face-detection. Are you honestly saying that police departments will have a "criminal database" filled with wooden walls and furniture?
- otakucode 8y agoI'm saying that police departments DO have databases filled with images that have wooden walls and such. Not furniture usually, but photos are often taken in sub-optimal circumstances even when the police or others are trained to take the photos properly. I know this is the case because I've worked on biometric systems for the past 18 years, and I have personally worked on a system which was identifying almost every face to a mugshot taken against a wall with wooden paneling and the matching algorithm was keying in on it as a face rather than the human. I'm not speaking theoretically, this is how these systems fail.