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This detects any face, it does not identify people. It’s for stuff like autofocus, etc.
by woah 6y ago
This detects any face, it does not identify people. It’s for stuff like autofocus, etc.
- voqv 6y agoDetecting where is a face in a picture is the first step that's necessary before detecting whose face is that.
- oever 6y agoTaking a picture is a step before that.
- nxpnsv 6y agoHaving people with faces is a step before that.
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- kuroguro 6y agoHaving people is a step before that.
- corporateslave5 6y agoThis isn’t Reddit
- randylahey 6y agoThis isn't Digg
- postalrat 6y agoThis isn't slashdot.
- bufferoverflow 6y agoAnd purchasing a knife is the step before stabbing someone. Your argument is ridiculous.
- hdkrgr 6y agoHow is it ridiculous? The fact that purchasing a gun is the first step of shooting people is a good enough reason for most countries to ban the purchase of guns...
- marcinzm 6y agoYet they don't ban kitchen knives because there's legitimate uses for kitchen knives. Thus the point that you utterly missed.
- ColanR 6y agoiirc the UK does ban kitchen knives from being carried publicly.
- earleybird 6y agoIt seems the tradition of bringing your own dining knife passes. [https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-knives https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medieval-knives]
- tuesdayrain 6y agoI don't think "because there's legitimate uses" is the differentiating factor, since that implies only kitchen knives have them. Self-defense is a legitimate use for owning a gun, for example.
- marcinzm 6y agoIn many countries self-defense is NOT a legitimate use for owning a gun.
- taneq 6y agoAutofocus, autotarget, aimbots...
- vtange 6y agoAutofocus can be for anything - Phone cameras, Surveillance cameras, Drone missile targeting systems, etc.
- oh_sigh 6y agoCars can be used for anything - moving people from home to work, robbing banks, running people over, etc.
- black_puppydog 6y agoYes, and pjreddie seems to have concluded computer vision is mostly (or too often for their liking) used for the digital equivalent of those bad things.
- kebman 6y agoI think prjeddie's concerns are extremely relevant. However he's not the only one working on things like this, thus it's unlikely that research and development will stop, although I certainly think such development is ethically questionable. In some ways this thing seems similar to the ethical problems facing the scientists working on the nuclear bomb. I just hope to God that this tech will be used for good rather than bad, but the way things are going with political censorship (government sponsored or otherwise) and people of opposing camps doing their best to dox political opponents–let's just say I'm not too optimistic...
- black_puppydog 6y ago> it's unlikely that research and development will stop I know you didn't make this argument here, but I still want to point out that that's ethically irrelevant for his decision. Or the other way around: "Someone else would have done it" is not a defense when you've built something that was clearly gonna be used for Bad Things(TM).
- phonebucket 6y ago> Yes, and pjreddie seems to have concluded computer vision is mostly (or too often for their liking) used for the digital equivalent of those bad things. Indeed, there are many nefarious applications of computer vision. But applications to the medical industry are plentiful too. I see weighing up the net benefit as a tricky and a personal matter.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIt's not really for autofocus. For autofocus, you need a model that can detect blurred images. You also need to operate on 36-42 bit data. Furthermore, autofocus has already progressed from face detection to eye detection.