Face detection

July 22, 2012
YouTube's Face Detection-Based Blurring: Digital Protection From Those Intent On Harming

As the daily news reports unfortunately make regularly clear, existing among us are no shortage of sick and twisted individuals who prey on children they find via (among other avenues) published images. And those same news reports document scores of situations in which captured still photos and video footage have been used by oppressive regimes around the world to identify and target dissidents found in the frames.

June 14, 2012
Face Detection For Obscenity Prevention

Another day, another facial recognition-fueled controversy...although strictly speaking, this one involves less-complex face detection, not age, race, gender or specific-identity recognition...at least not yet, that is.

April 10, 2012
Sit Up Straight! A Webcam Turns Your Computer Display Into A Parental Surrogate

Poor posture is a topic that my poor mother constantly harped on me about as a child. And considering how poorly I'm sitting as I type these words, her efforts were largely for naught. Nonetheless, her spirit lives on in Philips' 24-inch ErgoSensor Monitor, which leverages a built-in front-facing image sensor and software developed by DigitalOptics Corporation in order to implement multiple functions beyond conventional videoconferencing purposes:

October 24, 2011
Info On Android v4: Google Gives Us More

Per last Wednesday's writeup on Google's unveiling of "Ice Cream Sandwich" Android 4, which embeds both facial detection and recognition facilities, I've subsequently come across some additional details which I thought would be of interest to you:

October 19, 2011
Embedded Vision And Android 4: More Features Galore