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> Northrop Grumman has been developing very sophisticated, state-of-the-art, facial recognition technology for the last 15 years. Yikes, hopefully you're not s
by paloaltokid 6y ago
> Northrop Grumman has been developing very sophisticated, state-of-the-art, facial recognition technology for the last 15 years.
Yikes, hopefully you're not suggesting that the length of time is a virtue? This may be a stereotype but I thought Northrop Grumman was one of those "attach" defense contractors that do work for years and years but never actually deliver any software.
- gnarbarian 6y agoWould you expect to know about the successful projects for a company who built the yf23? They would be ultra secret.
- catalogia 6y agoI'm confused by this comment. The YF-23 was not a successful project, but it's successful competitor is well known to the public. Furthermore there are successful Northrop projects that are known to the public, for instance the B-2. And the B-2 was shown to the public years before the first operational one was delivered to the Air Force.
- gnarbarian 6y agoHint: the 23 actually won. ;)
- lallysingh 6y agoNo, I remember talking to people in defense research around that time period working on facial recognition. Please take the "sophisticated" and "state-of-the-art" phrases as marketing.
- raverbashing 6y agoYeah I doubt they had RNNs 15 years ago. > "sophisticated" and "state-of-the-art" phrases as marketing^W ways of charging more money
- ganzuul 6y agoThey may have been honing datasets for 15 years.
- tomrod 6y agoWhat is "^W"?
- raverbashing 6y agoGo to a terminal, type a series of words then press Ctrl+w see what happens (not sure if it works on the Windows Shell though)
- kop316 6y agoI think it means "Exclusive or" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%5EX This is why I am thinking that.
- BayesianDice 6y ago^W denotes Ctrl-W, the shortcut to delete the previous word for example originally in Berkley (thanks Wikipedia!) Unix-style terminals (and ^H denotes the control code for backspace, deleting the previous letter). The Jargon File's example shows how these are used for humorous effect: '"Be nice to this fool^H^H^H^Hgentleman, he's visiting from corporate HQ." reads roughly as “Be nice to this fool, er, gentleman...”, with irony emphasized.' (http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/writing-style.html)
- tomrod 6y agoCtrl+H is maintained!
- cat199 6y agoRNN's are 80's technology at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_neural_network#Histo... With neural network use in image recognition (if not facial recognition) being used at least as early as 1983 (I'm not in the field, so just did 5s of research and found something related) - https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6313076 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6313076 "A recognition with a large-scale network is simulated on a PDP-11/34 minicomputer and is shown to have a great capability for visual pattern recognition. The model consists of nine layers of cells. ..." another paper from 1990 using neural networks for facial sex identification: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221619290_SEXNET_A_Neural_Network_Identifies_Sex_From_Human_Faces https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221619290_SEXNET_A_... and software facial recognition itself dates to the 60s. despite what the 'data science and AI and by AI I really only mean the subset of AI referring to ML' hypetrain tells you, these things are not new, the processors are just faster, and the tools are more accessible, which means the relevant application space is larger.