[NBLUG/talk] Searching for near-identical photos?

Walter Hansen gandalf at sonic.net
Tue Nov 8 11:09:27 PST 2005


I used to be able to detemine a persons sex at 200 feet in the dark at
night. I think it had to do with the different ways men and women move.
The program to do that would be rather complex.

> Yes.. It is the 21st century, but "computers" have only been around for
> about 50 years, plus all of those above things are pretty easy to do.
> Computers are bad with recognizing patters, whereas humans are pretty
> good, this is part of what allows us to recognise people in dark light,
> far away, partial images, that kinda thing... to a computer, this is
> VERY challanging. (ie. why facial recongnition software sucks).
> The same kinda thing applys to your picture problem.





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