IOS 5 To Have Powerful Face Detection

Re:IOS 5 To Have Powerful Face Detection by ctdonath on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:11PM (#2812760)

I keep wondering when the "Welcome back, Mr. Yamamoto" scene from _Minority_Report_ will become reality.

iOS including strong face recognition will be a big step toward that.

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Re:IOS 5 To Have Powerful Face Detection by schrototo on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @12:43PM (#2812934)

Not face recognition, face detection. The new APIs [1] make it possible to detect if an image contains faces and returns position data of various face features (eyes and mouth). There is no way to recognize which person a face belongs to.

As an aside, why do rumor sites always have to make it seem as if these things were somehow hidden? It's a well-known and documented part of a public API (it just happens to be under NDA at the moment, but it's not any kind of secret, really).

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/#document...

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Re:IOS 5 To Have Powerful Face Detection by eli on Wednesday July 27, 2011 @01:29PM (#2813145)

Kinect can do that now.

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