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> It's amusing the way FACE-DETECTION in my spiffy digital camera (an Olympus EM1) will find faces in all kinds of inanimate objects. They set out to specifica
by smorrow 12y ago
> It's amusing the way FACE-DETECTION in my spiffy digital camera (an Olympus EM1) will find faces in all kinds of inanimate objects.
They set out to specifically look for faces. So that's what they'll find.
- jrapdx3 12y agoBut when it finds a "face" and it's really a pile of old flower pots--not even close to a concept of "human face"--now that's amusing. It shows the limits of the technology, but as in the article, technological quirks can sometimes be exploited creatively.