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Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by sk5t »

foolfoolz wrote: post #19
pjmorris wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FUD aside, I'm with the GP on a question that you might have an answer for: How will Rekognition positively affect the common person?

i see a big opportunity in home security. domestic abuse, alert in case your abuser is at your home. and automatically lock your door. restraining order? add their face and do the same. i see a future where getting a face scan is a requirement of every restraining order this tech can save lives

Doors and locks only keep out the honest people. These use-cases have some political appeal but are absolutely impractical.

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by metildaa »

btown wrote: post #21
bhhaskin wrote: post #10

I went to a concert the other night, and they where scanning driver licenses and running facial recognition on everyone entering. It was very disconcerting. It is clear to me that we need new laws to protect against the misuse of this technology. Laws that apply to everyone without exceptions for law enforcement. If we don't I fear we are headed towards a 1984 type of future.

That’s... actually a reasonable way to combat ticket scalping.

Its also a ridiculous invasion of privacy.

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by oh-kumudo »

It is not like that if Amazon didn't build it, other government agencies will stay there in vain.

Facial recognition service is very easy to build these days, provided that sufficient data is presented, and government has plenty of such data.

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by foolfoolz »

sk5t wrote: post #31
foolfoolz wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i see a big opportunity in home security. domestic abuse, alert in case your abuser is at your home. and automatically lock your door. restraining order? add their face and do the same. i see a future where getting a face scan is a requirement of every restraining order this tech can save lives

Doors and locks only keep out the honest people. These use-cases have some political appeal but are absolutely impractical.

you clearly don’t know anyone with a restraining order or the fear that comes with your personal safety being threatened. there is nothing impractical with uploading someone’s face to your hole security system when you know that personal is a threat and should be no where near you at any time

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by hndamien »

teej wrote: post #17
tintor wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also don't go to concerts that do this.

It’s not like this is listed on the ticket. You don’t know how the venue is going to enforce until you’re there for the first time.

It really should be disclosed when purchasing.

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by awirth »

murukesh_s wrote: post #33

I wonder why would anyone pay for the cloud services when they can build it locally? Is it more economical?

Is this something that is considered easy to build locally? When I last looked at the open source options a few years ago it was basically all researchware grade stuff. Amazon is offering this is a production service with SLAs.

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by sk5t »

foolfoolz wrote: post #35
sk5t wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doors and locks only keep out the honest people. These use-cases have some political appeal but are absolutely impractical.

you clearly don’t know anyone with a restraining order or the fear that comes with your personal safety being threatened. there is nothing impractical with uploading someone’s face to your hole security system when you know that personal is a threat and should be no where near you at any time

Isn't this solely an appeal to emotion? How is facial recognition going to help in this case, where, if the tech were to gain some traction, bad actors would be aware of it and could take easy steps to defeat it? And even if the tech were difficult to thwart, at what point would the rate of false positives make it viable?

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by dzhiurgis »

danols wrote: post #29
metildaa wrote: post #2

Woo, better facial recognition for all kinds of nefarious purposes! Edit: Dead serious, how will Rekognition positively affect the common person? All I see is a myriad of possible ways government, corporations and individuals have abused camera footage today, and emboldened with better technology these problems are likely to get much worse.

Border control. Unlike many other privacy infringing solutions this will have little impact on regular people and big on criminals.

Huh? Has it not been implemented for like decades?

Re: Amazon Rekognition updates face detection, analysis and recognition capabilities

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Post by pupdogg »

dawhizkid wrote: post #6

I played around with Rekognition a few months ago and frankly wasn’t that impressed with what it could do. As far as I can remember it could sort of compare if the same person was in two photos (definitely false negatives with various photos of myself I compared), basic OCR of text off images, and not very accurate recognition of certain things/objects.

Based on OP's incident and your expereience, I think that AWS Rekognition is currently in its consumption/learning stage. Give it a few months to adequately digest that data and then try!
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