by Grelinette » 16/12/14, 11:25
As usual, when we talk about innovations and technical progress, there is,
- on the one hand, the positive aspect of the imagination and skills of researchers who find and develop methods and algorithms to answer a need or solve a problem,
- on the other hand, all the dubious and negative uses that these new technologies allow.
The analysis and recognition of photos or drawings is a subject studied for a very long time:
Being able to use an algorithm to scan a database of images, or on the web, to find photos according to their content is very useful and interesting.
For example, look for all the clichés that represent a particular person (political, businessman, gangster, terrorist, ...), a place, a planet, an object, a vehicle, a specific material, etc., etc. ..
Moreover, search engines already do it very effectively for text. Why would images or photos be more problematic, especially since text is already linked to images (eg Facebook)?
Note also that recent news has shown, admittedly with some flaws, that one could quickly identify an individual from a video or a photo (see the French executioners who make war in Syria).
Would there be automatic facial analysis behind these latest cases? ...
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