HP camera 'can't see' black faces

[babsbunny]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8429634.stm

A YouTube video suggesting that face recognition cameras installed in HP laptops cannot detect black faces has had over one million views.

[BlooInBloo]

1. Not surprising...

If black folks don't count in the minds of PM's, devs, testers, and execs.

That guy's youtube is hilarious though - in a tragicomic kind of way.

[Mike Nelson]

2. It's true with some cameras

You have to be lighted and made up differently when photographed with someone w/ very different skin color. Sometimes they lighten things to photograph dark faces, and white people look white as ghosts... Good photographers with better cameras can even things out.

[hughee99]

3. Perhaps they suffer from the same affliction as cab drivers. n/t

[vi5]

4. This was a TV sitcom plot...

There is some show on ABC (I think called Better Off Ted) which lampoons corporate workplace stupidity pretty well. The company installed automatic motion sensors to turn lights on automatically and open doors automatically, but it couldn't recognize the African American workers so they would be walking in dark rooms and unable to get out because the doors wouldn't open. But rather than admit the problem because it would open them up to costly discrimination lawsuits their cost analysis people determined it would be cheaper to hire extra white people whose only job it was to walk around with the African American employees. When I watched it, it seemed so absurd (although the corporate attitude towards mistakes was so ridiculously accurate) but I guess not.

[Bluebear]

5. Sounds like a Republican.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. But just think--DARPA can't track you visually if the camera can't see your face

:evilgrin: