Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hmmm... This is a slippery slope... What's next? Boob recognition? > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:09:50 -0400 > To: lug at leica-users.org > From: chs2018 at med.cornell.edu > Subject: Re: [Leica] face-recognition software Lumix GH1 > > It would be of great interest if the engineers have figured out how to > teach a machine to recognize the similarities between family members. To > put it in another way, o use language to represent such similarities. > > > At 03:43 PM 4/30/2009, you wrote: > >Not just eye nose mouth configuration but "watch out its uncle Harry!". > > > >" This is not at all the same as the face *detection* feature in every > >camera on earth. The Lumix doesn't just recognize that something *is* a > >face; it actually tries to determine *whose* face it is. That way, it can > >give priority of focus and exposure to your own friends and family, even > >plucking them out of a crowd." > >That from David Pogue in an auto email thing I just got sent he'd done a > >thing on the camera in his regular internet column today or maybe it was > >the > >real newspaper. > > > > > >http://www.dpreview.com/news/0903/09030316lumixgh1handson.asp > > > >I do notice surprisingly the "LEICA" on the lens has been replaced by the > >word "LUMIX". > > > >Starts with an "L" but then falls about in the next 4 letters. > > > > > >Though could be just as LEICA as the LEICA on Panasonics other camera > >lenes. > > > > > >Mark William Rabiner > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Leica Users Group. > >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Chris Saganich MS, CPH > Senior Physicist, Office of Health Physics > Weill Medical College of Cornell University > New York Presbyterian Hospital > chs2018 at med.cornell.edu > http://intranet.med.cornell.edu/research/health_phys/ > Ph. 212.746.6964 > Fax. 212.746.4800 > Office A-0049 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live? Hotmail?:?more than just e-mail. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_more_042009