Show HN: I turned my face rec system into a video codec

Post by sounds » Thu, May 26, 2022, 2:59 PM UTC

mchusma wrote: post #83

You lost me at "patent pending". This idea has been obvious and in progress for a while now with lots of prior work. The issue is more the standards. Please don't sell this to a patent troll who will harass the industry for 20 years.

Post by latexr » Thu, May 26, 2022, 3:13 PM UTC

sounds wrote: post #111

mchusma wrote: post #83

You lost me at "patent pending". This idea has been obvious and in progress for a while now with lots of prior work. The issue is more the standards. Please don't sell this to a patent troll who will harass the industry for 20 years.

Seriously, this hits all the wrong points before sliding into "don't sell this to a patent troll." "We, the armchair internet, have come to shout at you, innovative dude, that your ideas are worthless and that your interesting product is just fodder for patent trolls," ignores a few minor things - • The video codec industry is absolutely crawling with overlapping patents enforced by shell companies whose only purpose…

Post by sounds » Thu, May 26, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

latexr wrote: post #113

sounds wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously, this hits all the wrong points before sliding into "don't sell this to a patent troll." "We, the armchair internet, have come to shout at you, innovative dude, that your ideas are worthless and that your interesting product is just fodder for patent trolls," ignores a few minor things - • The video codec industry is absolutely crawling with overlapping patents enforced by shell companies whose only purpose…

Please don’t strawman. I see no evidence of shouting or calling the idea worthless in the root comment. Quite the contrary: if the poster had found it worthless, they wouldn’t be worried about it being sold to patent trolls. Furthermore, according to the App Store what’s patent-pending is the algorithm that boosts eye contact, so comments on the codec don’t apply.

Post by Nowado » Thu, May 26, 2022, 3:34 PM UTC

bambax wrote: post #48

> Because it uses face rec, you can ONLY show your face, and if you disappear from view your audio will stop after a while, to avoid situations like when you need to go the the restroom but forget to mute. Of course, the real killer app for Zoom calls is the opposite of this: some kind of deep fakery that makes it seem we're there when we're not. Yet as it is, this is a fantastic idea. It's surprising video codecs de…

Post by hyperdimension » Thu, May 26, 2022, 4:02 PM UTC

noduerme wrote: post #20

kzrdude wrote: post #12

Does it have any interesting "nonlinear" effects where it can show an entirely different face (the wrong face) based on misidentification or even adversary input? These kinds of failure modes for "AI" are the most interesting to me. It seems extremely smart - but don’t you think that to have success in a mass market product - think like MS Teams - it would need to be a combined solution. Where it both can do this for…

also, what if you want to share dicks? It would be creepy if they all had eyes. There should be a mode for that where you drop into jitsi space