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Hololens facial recognition prototype

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Re: Hololens facial recognition prototype

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This detects a face and displays the attributes it calculated about it. That's pretty interesting though from the title I thought it was something that looked up people and displayed their name, etc.

Pretty cool though ultimately it just takes the Halo Lens input, sends it to the Microsoft Face API[1] and displays its results.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/face-api

Re: Hololens facial recognition prototype

#4

Yes, I'm glad people panicked about Google Glass possibly allowing for this, but by the time Hololens gets to try it, it's inevitable and cannot be stopped.

I think perhaps you didn't click on the link? This calls the Microsoft Face API and simply returns back attributes about the face you're looking at.

Re: Hololens facial recognition prototype

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Yes, I'm glad people panicked about Google Glass possibly allowing for this, but by the time Hololens gets to try it, it's inevitable and cannot be stopped.

Google specifically disallowed apps from doing this (though you could sidelide them I guess), and lots of people complained that it was a useless gesture.

Re: Hololens facial recognition prototype

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This detects a face and displays the attributes it calculated about it. That's pretty interesting though from the title I thought it was something that looked up people and displayed their name, etc. Pretty cool though ultimately it just takes the Halo Lens input, sends it to the Microsoft Face API[1] and displays its results. [1] https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/face-api

Yeah, name and other attribute lookup is feasible (and seems inevitable). Also, this prototype only claims to take a snapshot and submit it. Needs to perform the check in realtime against video input.
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