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Re: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

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I wonder how accurate these measurements are in practice. They could just be placeholder implementations, right?

At Vitensenteret (science center) in Trondheim they have a web cam hooked up to a TV screen where they show a live view of some face scanner software (multiple faces simultaneously). It estimates your gender, age, and mood (happy, sad, angry, surprised).

Every time I've visited it's been quite accurate on me, my friends, and on the other visitors.

EDIT: here is a pic of what I'm describing: http://fredly.fhs.no/dancemixbloggen/wp-content/uploads/site...

Re: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

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Uh, I got sidetracked and brain hammered by the devolving discussion on that Twitter thread, thus couldn't find the context for this pizza shop kiosk - Is it a customer service portal that attempts to identify the person in front of it to try and match up with an order, or a plain advertising display that is trying to capture the demographics of the people who happen to stop in front of it and look at it?

Re: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

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Windows.. TeamViewer.. using the primary screen to display the ad.. and the camera is not even hidden..

Amateurs.

I wouldn't be alarmed by this, they probably don't even now the accuracy of the algorithm they are using or how to interpret the collected data correctly.

Re: A crashed advertisement reveals logs of a facial recognition system

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Uh, I got sidetracked and brain hammered by the devolving discussion on that Twitter thread, thus couldn't find the context for this pizza shop kiosk - Is it a customer service portal that attempts to identify the person in front of it to try and match up with an order, or a plain advertising display that is trying to capture the demographics of the people who happen to stop in front of it and look at it?

It's an ad. May be targeted advertising, or just simple engagement analysis.

http://www.dinside.no/okonomi/reklameskilt-ser-hvem-du-er/67...

Edit: there is more information in the article. Not going to read it, though.

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