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The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by ovi256 »

dsr_ wrote: post #2

I wonder how well it works on people who have a skin color closer to their hair color.

Yeah, his baldness detector is not robust as it just checks the average color of the area above the forehead, but you could make a robust one through transfer learning a deep model trained on ImageNet further finetuned on a small dataset of a few dozen images of bald and non-bald.

Something like this: https://www.kaggle.com/dansbecker/transfer-learning

This method gets good, robust performance with just a few minutes of training.

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Post by cyborgx7 »

dsr_ wrote: post #2

I wonder how well it works on people who have a skin color closer to their hair color.

Since trained classifiers are already being used, and therefore fair game, a trained baldness classifier would be a better choice, I think. Of course you would need a dataset for that.

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

ujhmi6 wrote: post #20
thih9 wrote: post #10

Loosely related video, Star Trek actor talks about being bald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm_Iq8rFeg . I'm linking it to remind that perceiving baldness as something negative (here: a criterion for removal from a photo) can be a cause of distress and loss of confidence.

Baldness is something negative, it makes you less attractive. Like being fat, or having big ears, or being short. And? Should we change that? How? Should women be with bald men out of pity even if they are not attracted to them? All of this sounds ridiculous.

Baldness can be hot. Sometimes. http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/180/

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Post by [deleted] »

ujhmi6 wrote: post #20
thih9 wrote: post #10

Loosely related video, Star Trek actor talks about being bald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm_Iq8rFeg . I'm linking it to remind that perceiving baldness as something negative (here: a criterion for removal from a photo) can be a cause of distress and loss of confidence.

Baldness is something negative, it makes you less attractive. Like being fat, or having big ears, or being short. And? Should we change that? How? Should women be with bald men out of pity even if they are not attracted to them? All of this sounds ridiculous.

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Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by Nannooskeeska »

ujhmi6 wrote: post #20
thih9 wrote: post #10

Loosely related video, Star Trek actor talks about being bald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm_Iq8rFeg . I'm linking it to remind that perceiving baldness as something negative (here: a criterion for removal from a photo) can be a cause of distress and loss of confidence.

Baldness is something negative, it makes you less attractive. Like being fat, or having big ears, or being short. And? Should we change that? How? Should women be with bald men out of pity even if they are not attracted to them? All of this sounds ridiculous.

> Baldness is something negative

This is 100% subjective.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by keiferski »

aiyodev wrote: post #15
thih9 wrote: post #10

Loosely related video, Star Trek actor talks about being bald: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqm_Iq8rFeg . I'm linking it to remind that perceiving baldness as something negative (here: a criterion for removal from a photo) can be a cause of distress and loss of confidence.

I think it's kind of interesting that, thirty years later, the CEOs of SpaceX and Blue Origin are bald men.

Elon Musk is bald?
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