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Xolo does feature vector extraction on face regions. Extracting those regions from larger images is something else’s job. Zolo does feature vector similarity a
by jakear 6y ago
Xolo does feature vector extraction on face regions. Extracting those regions from larger images is something else’s job.
Zolo does feature vector similarity analysis on facial feature vectors. Extracting those vectors is something else’s job.
Oh look, now every authoritarian government has free access to never before seen levels of data harvesting. But nobody has to feel any guilt because they only contributed a third of the machine. Hooray!
- zo1 6y agoThe future is coming, and the tech that can enable authoritarian behavior will come no matter what we do as they're just tools. It's been here and around us in ever-increasing forms for decades and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state. What we should be worrying is actual usages of grand scale citizen-control and monitoring projects that are enabled by technology. Think China, not UK or US.
- longtom 6y ago> and yet we haven't necessarily devolved into a big brother state. Well this is damn close. It just needs an executive apparatus which is where drones surely come in handy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_(2013%E2%80%93present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...
- 8fingerlouie 6y agoAnd yet, a $0.50 facemask will completely destroy the surveillance.
- eunos 6y agoNah, gait based subject recognition might come in the future.
- HPsquared 6y agoMaybe wear high heels?
- anigbrowl 6y agoGait based recognition is way overrated, plus it's a lot harder to sell to a jury.
- jakear 6y agoAlready in use in places like China. And we know the US govt has secret courts to authorize wiretaps. We’re on the brink.
- gsich 6y agoWhy use hypothetical stuff as an argument?
- bonestamp2 6y agoWe have to worry about it in the US and the UK too. I mean, monitoring is already widespread in the US, UK, Canada, etc. Filtering, and therefore control, was almost reality in the UK last year, albeit limited to pornography. But it's a slippery slope in both cases.
- tenuousemphasis 6y agoIf open source models aren't developed, and even if they are, governments are going to develop their own. At least this way everyone else is on equal footing and not at a strict disadvantage. This tech could be used to identify police when they are in riot gear and cover their identification, for instance.
- jakear 6y agoNo, it couldn’t. We can’t see their face. We could maybe do it with gait analysis. But I haven’t seen public models for that (a good thing!)
- anigbrowl 6y agoWell, you often can see police officers' faces through their visors, just as you can sometimes recognize people through fabric masks. Police don't wear gas masks all the time, only when they're about to or immediately after deploying gas.
- jakear 6y agoThe police I saw at Seattle protests did indeed wear de-identification equipment even when not actively deploying chemical weapons against the civilians. I have photos.