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haditab | 5 years ago

I believe this is exactly why pjreddie quit computer vision research. It must kill him to see such projects based off of his work.

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woah|5 years ago

This detects any face, it does not identify people. It’s for stuff like autofocus, etc.

voqv|5 years ago

Detecting where is a face in a picture is the first step that's necessary before detecting whose face is that.

vtange|5 years ago

Autofocus can be for anything - Phone cameras, Surveillance cameras, Drone missile targeting systems, etc.

sudosysgen|5 years ago

It's not really for autofocus. For autofocus, you need a model that can detect blurred images. You also need to operate on 36-42 bit data.

Furthermore, autofocus has already progressed from face detection to eye detection.

taneq|5 years ago

Autofocus, autotarget, aimbots...

jonex|5 years ago

Could you elaborate? What is the problem with the linked project? Training a slightly faster, smaller and less accurate version of an existing model?

chvid|5 years ago

https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/

Is that pjreddie used horses, dogs, and bicycles as training data? Not realising that his technology could also be used on human faces?

naasking|5 years ago

I think that's the wrong approach. You don't stop the arms race by not investing in arms, you invest in countermeasures instead.

vffhfhf|5 years ago

I also believe it was idiotic.

Focusing too much on negative aspect of thing will lead you nowhere.

Manhattan project gave >500 research papers. Gave us Iodine 131 and other radio nucleotide which we use in medicine. And gave us lasting peace. So was it bad or not?

Is gene editing bad? was the internet bad? Was the dude who invented round wheel bad?

aiilns|5 years ago

Yes, using atomic bombs was bad. As others say it is debatable if it helped end the (already won?) war. And in any case, _lasting_ _piece_ where? Are middle east and Africa not part of this world?

I find your comment is entirely missing the point and low effort. Asking whether random techniques, inventions, inventors were "bad" or not makes us much sense as asking:

Is the sun bad? Were dinosaurs bad? Are the aliens bad? Is life bad?

pugworthy|5 years ago

| And gave us lasting peace

I think the jury is still out on that. Or rather the trial is still underway.

cheesecracker|5 years ago

You know who else can recognize faces? Humans! I guess we should cancel humans because of ethical concerns.

chii|5 years ago

one human brain can only perform some 10-12 hrs of facial recognition work before needing to take a break, and also do so relatively low speeds.

One computer brain can be copied for free, and deployed to thousands of computer clusters and work 24/7 on facial recognition, at a fraction of the cost.

oh_sigh|5 years ago

Because small models of face detection software would be released on github?