October 8, 2007: Age/sex cam

It's the Monday Neatorama collaboration image!



The cameras are getting smarter. First they only had to identify what was a face. Then they started comparing faces to find matches. Now they're figuring out what the faces actually are. The official caption from the Mainichi Daily News:

Pssh, I thought it was going to be closer than a 20 year range.

Crazy stuff. Not to surprised.

Don't let Ibram near it...


but now he's gone and cut his hair

The next generation:

"Woman 20-39 years, kind of bitchy, never married, has daddy issues, Man 20-39 years, Momma's boy, will never be happy in a relationship, wets the bed, Man 20-39 years, secretly in love with Llama, collects tupperware but only if it's red, erectile disfunction".

Nice work Sheldon!

I find it odd that all three faces are westerners (at least non-Japanese). But maybe the shot was chosen for an English language news service so they chose it on purpose.

I also find it impressive that it works so well for western faces, if it was originally designed in Japan. Larger noses, especially on women, are very rare here, and might cause the software to guess male.
Also, Japanese people show signs of age very slowly. A few times in my classes I have thought "Hmmm, she's pretty cute" and then she says "My son just graduated from college" or something.
The success of the software could be attributed to either it being calibrated for a wide range of faces (western as well as Japanese) or, as I suspect, they chose a successful matching to put in the paper.

On second thoughts, putting that woman in 20-39 is being generous to her. I'd be very surprised if she is under 30. How crushing would it be if the machine classed her as male, 30-49. Ouch! Maybe it errs on the side of caution.

Sheldonrs
Lecturer

I found your post so funny I had to say so. I have posted one other comment in the last many months. maybe centuries.

There is also a working prototype of a photocopier which will translate as it copies!!

It scans the page, locates the text within the layout, reads it, translates, composes a page with the same layout, and prints. Just hope the translation software is better than babelfish!

All your base are belong to us!

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Originally Posted by ZenGum All your base are belong to us!

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Originally Posted by Sheldonrs The next generation: "Woman 20-39 years, kind of bitchy, never married, has daddy issues, Man 20-39 years, Momma's boy, will never be happy in a relationship, wets the bed, Man 20-39 years, secretly in love with Llama, collects tupperware but only if it's red, erectile disfunction".

These don't detect assholes yet or what?


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These don't detect assholes or what? Hopefully this won't be so large this time........



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Does not detect assholes yet or what? (the third time's the charm)




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Cannon has a camera in the works that won't take the picture, until everyone in the frame is smiling.

what if you're going for one of those moody shots?

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Originally Posted by Razzmatazz13 what if you're going for one of those moody shots?

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Originally Posted by barefoot serpent All your face are belong to us.

Third generation;

Woman: Clara Dibold, DOB 12/10/61, kind of bitchy, never married, has daddy issues, $8,342 in savings, earns $982.51/wk as stripper, will die 10/9/2011 choking on a gummy bear.

Man: Yamma Gelspecky, DOB 2/2/66, Momma's boy, will never be happy in a relationship, wets the bed, $8 in savings, earns $1,845.22 - $2,345.77/wk as a car thief, will die 3/12/2008 in a hail of bullets.

Man: Sacure Ernestway, DOB 5/28/65, secretly in love with Llama, collects Tupperware but only if it's red, erectile dysfunction, pedophile, politician, $677,890.22 in savings, earns $3,989.29/wk from kick backs and general graft, will drown 7/17/2009 while swimming in wet concrete.

I love Big Brother