An advertisement that recognizes faces revealed by logs after sign crashes

[sharedvalues]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14309194

Face tracking, emotional analytics and vision based demographics analysis is a pretty huge industry. There's a entire spectrum of uses for this tech, from the altruistic (psychology labs, humans factors research), to the well, not.

You'd be surprised / scared / outraged if you knew how common this is. Any time you've been in a public place for the past few years, you've likely been watched, analysed and optimised for. Advertising in the physical world is just as scummy as it's online equivalent.
Check out the video here http://sightcorp.com/ for an ultra creepy overview. You can even try their live demo:

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Here's the tweet with the screenshot

since that forum didn't actually show it:

Link to tweet

for those who can't see tweets, lots of lines like

"male - young adult, attention time 406 out of 406; Smile 0 / 1.00; glasses"

[cyclonefence]

2. I scanned a picture of Michael Flatley painted gold

and sightcorp identified him as a 46 year old male whose facial expression revealed (in descending order) disgust, sadness, and anger, with fear/happiness/surprise tied for last. I *think* Flatley was going for sexy.

You can see the picture I used here: http://is-a-cunt.com/2015/05/michael-flatley/

and the sightcorp scanning sample is here: https://face-api.sightcorp.com/demo_basic/

They offer the option of scanning your face from your webcam, but for some reason I was not comfortable letting them see me.

I'm not sure how useful this scanning technique would be given the small number of expressions it can capture and name.

[sharedvalues]

3. It will be consistently improved.

10 years ago voice recognition tech was poor. It has been improved. Now it is good.

Same will happen with public face recognition.

The public needs to reckon with this.