On-Device, Real-Time Hand Tracking with MediaPipe

Post by eitland » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 9:48 AM UTC

cromwellian wrote: post #50

eitland wrote: post #48

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My thoughts exactly. Ten or 15 years ago I would think "cool, they are going to make something awesome with it". Three years ago: "they'll shut it down when they get another exciting idea". Today: "userbinator beat me to it only I am worried they will come up with something worse". Sorry to all googlers here. I'm trying not picking on you individually but the company you work for has worked long and hard to erode mou…

It’s an open source library, so you can’t “shut it down”, it’s a gift to the community and people can continue to use it if Google doesn’t. Honestly these kinds of comments are getting silly and applied out of context, it’s almost like there needs to be. Godwin’s law for dredging up Reader’s cancellation or conspiracy theories about how finger tracking is going to be used for ad recommendation.

Post by SahAssar » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 10:04 AM UTC

kjar wrote: post #46

bigiain wrote: post #42

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> A combination voice recognition + gesture recognition + eye tracking would make ... retail surveillance much more effective and privacy eroding...

if they do it all on device and do not transmit out, then the privacy concern seems squelched. On retail tracking yeah it's messed, practically no one knows their movements are tracked on their phones - cell tower triangulation, GPS, then the kicker NFC. I love / hate tech. It's powerful stuff. [edit] - the cell tower triangulation is forever given the nature of the tech.

Post by TOMDM » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 11:09 AM UTC

ereyes01 wrote: post #35

mkl wrote: post #21

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Why would it be useful to have technology detect signals? Aren't people already going to be doing it? Genuine question, I don't know how baseball works.

Hand signals are commonly used in baseball to surreptitiously communicate intent to teammates without giving away your strategy to opponents. I think what GP was getting at is that this technology could be used to automate the reading of hand signals. I'm not sure it would be effective, as the pro baseball players are already quite sophisticated at both reading and obfuscating hand signals, at least at the highest le…

Post by grenoire » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

WanderPanda wrote: post #52

kjar wrote: post #46

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if they do it all on device and do not transmit out, then the privacy concern seems squelched. On retail tracking yeah it's messed, practically no one knows their movements are tracked on their phones - cell tower triangulation, GPS, then the kicker NFC. I love / hate tech. It's powerful stuff. [edit] - the cell tower triangulation is forever given the nature of the tech.

Cell tower is rather trilateration, right?

Post by dekhn » Sat, Aug 31, 2019, 3:05 PM UTC

Mathnerd314 wrote: post #29

zawerf wrote: post #11

The underlying project MediaPipe looks pretty cool: https://github.com/google/mediapipe/blob/master/mediapipe/do... I wonder why they didn't build it on top of one of the gazillion flow-based visual programming languages instead?

Probably because it uses TensorFlow (lite) and there aren't many (any?) VPLs supporting C++ integration. And also Google has NIH syndrome, it's hard to think of any outside projects they use besides the Linux software stack and LLVM.