Unnamed faces
Four year old iMac dies (8 kernel panics on average before a stable boot) and a new one arrives. Larger screen (I mean REALLY LARGER) and iLife 09. I'm pleased that the revamped iMovie no longer completely sucks AND that iPhoto has included some interesting new features, e.g., face recognition.
Face recognition is a two-stage process on iPhoto. When you import photos, it tries first to find faces, any faces. Then it tries to match the faces to faces in the database. It has gotten pretty good at recognizing most of us, but Lily can be a mystery to it because there are so many photos from so many angles.
I'm enjoying the faces that iPhoto finds that aren't exactly there. I've started a collection.
Start with creepy bronze boy from Needham center.
Obama on a t-shirt.
But sometimes iPhoto makes it difficult to understand what it is seeing. Where are the faces in the following three photos?
Face recognition is a two-stage process on iPhoto. When you import photos, it tries first to find faces, any faces. Then it tries to match the faces to faces in the database. It has gotten pretty good at recognizing most of us, but Lily can be a mystery to it because there are so many photos from so many angles.
I'm enjoying the faces that iPhoto finds that aren't exactly there. I've started a collection.
Start with creepy bronze boy from Needham center.
Obama on a t-shirt.
But sometimes iPhoto makes it difficult to understand what it is seeing. Where are the faces in the following three photos?
posted by Peter Oehlkers at 6:45 PM
2 Comments:
Nice collection!
When I squint at the top and bottom mystery photos, my guess is this: The software is "recognizing" noses.
The first one has a bump on it that looks vaguely like a nose--almost like the kind you see on Cabbage Patch Kids (http://www.cabbagepatchkids.com/cart/products/Detail.cfm?pid=21103&srow=1&f_catid=154)--right above grass level.
The last one has a leaf in the middle with shadows that look like nostrils, as if someone has their head tilted back and the viewer is looking up their leafy nose.
The middle one, though, perplexes even my best guesses.
Fun!
I thought iPhoto might be seeing ghosts...
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