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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 Insanity »

Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #35
ujhmi6 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

George Costanza is Jason Alexander + Larry David. I recommend you watch Curb Your Enthusiasm if you enjoyed Seinfeld.

I would also recommend Curb Your Enthusiasm, but there is a difference: Larry David is neurotic, but even in his fictional Curb Your Enthusiasm persona he is extremely wealthy and successful. That is a big difference from George Constanza, who combined being neurotic with constantly being adrift employment-wise and has little to recommend himself.

Yeah, but if you like Seinfeld in general there's a good chance you'll like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. Seinfeld has a higher 'standing' in my personal ranking, next to friends it's my favourite series to date.

If you like these shows and your sense of humour is similar to mine, you might also enjoy "Friends" and "How I met your mother". They all have a similar feel to me.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by stefs »

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.

in my personal opinion: baldness used to be unsexier, but that changed in the last 1-2 decades. nowadays it's another hairstyle people might adopt even if they're not bald - fashionable, especially combined with a beard.

being partially bald (instead of going all in ... or all out?) feels like it's (still?) unstylish, as a tonsure (monk spot?) is not a hairstyle you'd be going for on purpose.

though, as i grow older myself, as in 30+, even though i still have a head full of hair i tend to notice it less and less as there are so many people in my social circle (mostly in the 25-45 year age group) sporting partially bald heads it pretty much became the new normal.

edit: one of the reasons might be that people started to get in shape more. if people are balding but in shape, the lack of hair becomes secondary. as linked below: http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/180/

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by nacs »

mkagenius wrote: post #30

Deep learning with a 100 samples can do this completely with the body too. This is a similar project I did: https://comic2gif.com where I remove the speech written on the images, the same technology can be used here.

But edge detection is a lot easier on comics than on photos I would think. The background on a comic would also have a mostly solid color background which makes it easier.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by max76 »

scythe wrote: post #39
max76 wrote: post #31

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I don't feel like baldness is something that needs to be fixed. To me that sounds the same as saying the genes for blonde hair can be "fixed".

Blond hair is easy to fix. Hair dye has been around for years. Why shouldn’t bald people be afforded the same freedom, in an era where we literally fly through the air on titanium wings just to take vacations?

It's the term "fix" that I don't like. It assumes the opposite state is broken.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by moate »

Insanity wrote: post #41
Mediterraneo10 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would also recommend Curb Your Enthusiasm, but there is a difference: Larry David is neurotic, but even in his fictional Curb Your Enthusiasm persona he is extremely wealthy and successful. That is a big difference from George Constanza, who combined being neurotic with constantly being adrift employment-wise and has little to recommend himself.

Yeah, but if you like Seinfeld in general there's a good chance you'll like 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'. Seinfeld has a higher 'standing' in my personal ranking, next to friends it's my favourite series to date. If you like these shows and your sense of humour is similar to mine, you might also enjoy "Friends" and "How I met your mother". They all have a similar feel to me.

I hear this all the time, and it just doesn't click for me. I liked Seinfeld, but Larry's character on Curb is just too much. I also love It's Always Sunny... but I just cannot enjoy Curb.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by mkagenius »

nacs wrote: post #45
mkagenius wrote: post #30

Deep learning with a 100 samples can do this completely with the body too. This is a similar project I did: https://comic2gif.com where I remove the speech written on the images, the same technology can be used here.

But edge detection is a lot easier on comics than on photos I would think. The background on a comic would also have a mostly solid color background which makes it easier.

> But edge detection is a lot easier on comics than on photos I would think

That should be true. But deep learning based models work quite good on natural images as Vgg dataset is mostly natural. This is perhaps one-off usage/application on comics.

Re: The Boombox Incident: removing bald people from photos

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Post by anisppp »

max76 wrote: post #33
keiferski wrote: post #29

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Elon Musk is bald?

Defiantly thinning, but not bald[0]. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Elon_Mus...

that’s after hair transplants dude. Find a pic of him in the late 90s.
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