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Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing

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Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing

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Post by gammarator »

hnriot wrote: post #9
svantana wrote: post #8

It's all in good spirit, but I can't help to note that it wreeks of the old racist trope "all look the same" http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/they-all-look-the-same... And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.

When it's actually got a foundation in math, it stops being a racist trope and becomes a valid scientific inquiry. Sexist? Overly sensitive would be one word for it.

The analysis uses math, but that doesn't make it scientific. In particular, there's no comparison to the similarity of a sample of faces of normal Koreans, westerners, or beauty contestants.

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Post by binarysolo »

therobot24 wrote: post #2

neat, but eigenfaces is really overplayed and outdated, there's lots of better face recognition algorithms that can handle a bit of distortion/deformation that really plagues principal component methods

Seconding interest on more info in the facial recognition domain and PCA.

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Post by Camillo »

svantana wrote: post #8

It's all in good spirit, but I can't help to note that it wreeks of the old racist trope "all look the same" http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/they-all-look-the-same... And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.

The problem is that "they all look the same" is actually a factual observation about how our brains recognize faces. So, if you label it as a "racist trope" you end up implying that racism is part of human nature... which I'm sure is not what you want.

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Post by smegel »

svantana wrote: post #8

It's all in good spirit, but I can't help to note that it wreeks of the old racist trope "all look the same" http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/they-all-look-the-same... And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.

> And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.

Well we are talking about Korea. You would probably have a heart attack if you watched even 60 seconds of Kpop.

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Post by w1ntermute »

smegel wrote: post #26
svantana wrote: post #8

It's all in good spirit, but I can't help to note that it wreeks of the old racist trope "all look the same" http://healthland.time.com/2010/11/24/they-all-look-the-same... And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive.

> And perhaps also a bit sexist? I dunno, maybe I'm overly sensitive. Well we are talking about Korea. You would probably have a heart attack if you watched even 60 seconds of Kpop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGN_W4VBZFo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8YXut6_56c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-IJWqIHioA

Re: Korean Beauty Contestants – Face Morphing

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Post by lmm »

msie wrote: post #27
davvid wrote: post #3

I wonder whether this analysis supports the assertion that these were photoshopped? http://kotaku.com/blame-photoshop-for-koreas-beauty-queen-cl...

I wish this comment stood out more but HN has eliminated displaying of points.

Huh? Points haven't been displayed on comments for at least 18 months.
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