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Today’s my last day at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. That’s both bad and good. It’s bad because, while I spotted hundreds of cool gadgets and gizmos, I missed at least twice as many due to the sheer size of the show. The good part is that I’ll soon be back home with my wife, dogs and gaming systems to comfort me. Plus I think I’m coming down with a cold. At any rate, yesterday I tackled the Las Vegas Convention Center’s South Hall to see what it had to offer.
The software described in the following video is fascinating because it can recognize and mask logos that it finds in videos. But it is also fascinating for what it implies – if a piece of software can “see” and “recognize” logos, it should not be long before it can “see” and “recognize” other things. For [...]
This test will take 10 or 15 minutes and is designed to test and see how good your face recognition skills are: Cambridge Face Memory Test If you enjoy that test, you might like this site as well, which has 5 additional brain tests: Welcome to Test My Brain! More info: How Facial Recognition Systems [...]
Imagine you walk into a room, you see someone you don’t know, so you point your phone’s camera at the person and your phone tells you the person’s name. It also lets you look up the person on Facebook. It sounds kind of interesting. The following video shows you how it works right now. The [...]
Has anyone ever told you this? Have you ever said these words to someone else? Well if you have and if you were being honest, then you may be what’s known as a “super-recognizer.” Apparently, just as there are people who suffer from face blindness, the opposite can take place.
Researchers from Harvard Vision Science Laboratories have established for the first time that some people are more skilled than others at remembering faces. Researcher Dr. Richard Russell posits that super-recognizers actually see faces differently than your average unobservant schlub. They can recognize the face of someone they met only in passing years after the encounter, completely out of context.
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