top | item 17990789 (no title) kankroc | 7 years ago I don't want to jump the gun and call it creepy just yet, but what is it for exactly? discuss order hn newest mcpherrinm|7 years ago The most common end-user use of face detection is probably adding filters and decorations to photos.This isn't too hard to do in javascript, but I assume a native implementation is much faster.I'm not sure why it would be creepy; face recognition is easily done locally. Every camera implements it, for example, for focusing on faces. type0|7 years ago My guess would be that it's intended to be used as some kind of second factor for authentication.
mcpherrinm|7 years ago The most common end-user use of face detection is probably adding filters and decorations to photos.This isn't too hard to do in javascript, but I assume a native implementation is much faster.I'm not sure why it would be creepy; face recognition is easily done locally. Every camera implements it, for example, for focusing on faces.
type0|7 years ago My guess would be that it's intended to be used as some kind of second factor for authentication.
mcpherrinm|7 years ago
This isn't too hard to do in javascript, but I assume a native implementation is much faster.
I'm not sure why it would be creepy; face recognition is easily done locally. Every camera implements it, for example, for focusing on faces.
type0|7 years ago