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Google Street View blurs Colonel Sanders everywhere.

6 points by olefoo 17y ago

Maciek416 17y ago
I'm suddenly reminded of the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ). Google's algorithm would appear to still be in stuffed animal territory. I wonder if Google will gradually tweak their algorithm to become better at identifying real faces with these logos will gradually reappear in Street View... Or perhaps we'll see them gradually recognizing logos and other things and indexing them?
pert 17y ago
The article didn't need to be more than the title and the picture, but that's modern "journalism" for you...
SamAtt 17y ago
Ironically Colonel Sanders was ashamed of the franchise (last paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legac...) so I think he'd approve of this :)
- iigs 17y ago
  Wow. That man did not hold back words. He'd have done great on 4chan. I tried some of their "Grilled" chicken yesterday and I suspect he'd also not approve of that. It was not very good.
ieatpaste 17y ago
The algorithm probably only categorizes faces opposed to identifies faces - to recognize a logo vs human is a waste of time.
jcl 17y ago
However, he is still visible from space, via Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=37.646192,+-115.750711&sll=44.824229,-93.374165&sspn=0.059416,0.172691&ie=UTF8&geocode=FXBvPgIdycgZ-Q&split=0&ll=37.647318,-115.750709&spn=0.006473,0.010793&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...
mattj 17y ago
I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this, but lots of street view pictures will have random face shaped blurs on walls and such. My guess is google has set a very low false-negative threshold for face identification, and are thus willing to tolerate blurring lots of non-face objects (which isn't really much of a loss, anyways, and definitely tolerable if it means the difference between every real face being blurred and missing 1 out of 100).

6 points by olefoo 17y ago

I'm suddenly reminded of the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ). Google's algorithm would appear to still be in stuffed animal territory. I wonder if Google will gradually tweak their algorithm to become better at identifying real faces with these logos will gradually reappear in Street View... Or perhaps we'll see them gradually recognizing logos and other things and indexing them?

pert 17y ago

The article didn't need to be more than the title and the picture, but that's modern "journalism" for you...

SamAtt 17y ago

Ironically Colonel Sanders was ashamed of the franchise (last paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legac...) so I think he'd approve of this :)

iigs 17y ago
Wow. That man did not hold back words. He'd have done great on 4chan. I tried some of their "Grilled" chicken yesterday and I suspect he'd also not approve of that. It was not very good.

ieatpaste 17y ago

The algorithm probably only categorizes faces opposed to identifies faces - to recognize a logo vs human is a waste of time.

jcl 17y ago

However, he is still visible from space, via Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=37.646192,+-115.750711&sll=44.824229,-93.374165&sspn=0.059416,0.172691&ie=UTF8&geocode=FXBvPgIdycgZ-Q&split=0&ll=37.647318,-115.750709&spn=0.006473,0.010793&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...

mattj 17y ago

I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this, but lots of street view pictures will have random face shaped blurs on walls and such. My guess is google has set a very low false-negative threshold for face identification, and are thus willing to tolerate blurring lots of non-face objects (which isn't really much of a loss, anyways, and definitely tolerable if it means the difference between every real face being blurred and missing 1 out of 100).