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I don't know much about the state of the art in image recognition but does it really seem plausible? The picture of him holding the beer is not super high quali
by simias 6y ago
I don't know much about the state of the art in image recognition but does it really seem plausible? The picture of him holding the beer is not super high quality, he has a different expression, a slightly different haircut and he appears quite a bit older. You can't even see his distinctive freckles. The idea that you could just scan random images of people online and find him that way is wild to me, tuning the network not to miss it but also not to report millions of false positives seems like a very high bar.
It's pretty creepy if we're already at the point where any random people can trace you online using apparently unrelated low quality photos.
- ineedasername 6y agoWe don't know how much effort it took. The searcher could very well have gone through thousands of images, following up on hundreds, before zeroing in on this one. Or not-- I'd certainly like to know more about that part of the process.
- fsckboy 6y agoi know little about the state of the art in image recognition, but it strikes me that this could be better described as facial recognition, and afaik, that does a pretty good job identifying faces
- hapidjus 6y agoNo idea is it is state of the art but I just tested PimEyes(the reverse image search service mentioned) with an old photo of me, it returned a bunch of photos of random people but also two of me within the first 30-40 results. One is older, 7-8 years maybe, and one is more recent, 2 years perhaps. I have different facial expressions and the pose/angle is different than the one I submitted.