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Yup... FindFaces is somewhat of a surface feature. The image processing group thought about allowing you to use custom Haar cascades with FindFaces, and decide
by taliesinb 14y ago
Yup... FindFaces is somewhat of a surface feature.
The image processing group thought about allowing you to use custom Haar cascades with FindFaces, and decided instead to wait another version and do a proper Viola-Jones detection function + training framework.
The thinking was that enough people will find some basic face detection useful to justify the early release of this particular facet of the whole object detection/recognition problem.
But, you are right. There is definitely a balance between 'solving' an entire domain at once or expanding the frontier to new domains. I think the Mathematica team is navigating that balance pretty well, though. My most common reaction when seeing new M functionality is 'wow, this is amazingly deep', not 'gee, this is a gimmick'.
- spitfire 14y agoFeature request for MMA 10. Bayesian classification and bayesian networks. and a bunch of spit and polish on the Mac notebook interface - undo as people have mentioned, scrolling performance, responsiveness, etc. Thanks from a 17 year MMA user.
- taliesinb 14y agoYeah, M is ripe for it. The graph theory is already there, along with symbolic stat distributions. We should be able to do some pretty powerful inference, perhaps even on generalized box-plate diagrams.
- Osmium 14y agoThat's fair. I hope my comment didn't come across as too critical. It's precisely because I see the potential and the power of Mathematica that I often get so frustrated with it. I look forward to see what you guys come up with next at any rate.