http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/22/hp.webcams/index.html

Quote :

"HP looking into claim webcams can't see black people (CNN) -- Can Hewlett-Packard's motion-tracking webcams see black people? It's a question posed on a now-viral YouTube video and the company says it's looking into it. In the video, two co-workers take turns in front of the camera -- the webcam appears to follow Wanda Zamen as she sways in front of the screen and stays still as Desi Cryer moves about. "

12/23/2009 11:37:07 PM

HAHAHAHA 10/10

So the algorithm struggles with horribly backlit dark-skinned people. Whooptee-freaking-do.

Get some better lighting and call me back.

12/24/2009 12:06:57 AM

HP is not alone.

12/24/2009 12:07:49 AM

[old]

EMCE posted this a few days ago


granted didn't make a thread, but yea

12/24/2009 12:12:22 AM

and EMCE's shit is what goes

cause he's the king around here

12/24/2009 12:14:05 AM

it seems like it would be easy as long as there's contrast. In that picture she blends in with the background more than he does, but his facial features are harder to see.

12/24/2009 12:15:31 AM

She has a very white face surrounded by dark hair. You can track with with a $10 webcam. Oh wait...

12/24/2009 1:43:40 AM

12/24/2009 1:46:35 AM

emce makes crappy thread titles
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12/24/2009 10:42:08 AM

Quote :

"HP is not alone. "

lulz..i lol'd at this for some reason

12/24/2009 10:43:04 AM

LOL at the picture fleetwud posted

12/24/2009 11:05:15 AM

10/10

Quote :

"My blackness is affecting the computer's ability to follow me."

Maybe he should smile more

12/24/2009 4:51:07 PM

Quote :

"computers are racist"

I hope the poster is kidding. Otherwise give me a fucking break. HP programmers were so racist that they decided to make a motion sensitive camera that did not follow black people? ya fucking right. If anything the program was written by a black programmer with a bug so that his brother along with his homies can rob stores using the HP webcam currently in question.

12/24/2009 7:53:36 PM

And that black guy is a fucking idiot. There, I said it.

12/24/2009 8:51:53 PM

I can't remember the name of it, but there was some type of PS3 thing coming out (I want to say it starts with an n) and it can detect your movements, but it has a lot of trouble with really dark skinned people.

12/24/2009 8:54:59 PM

I wish I couldn't see them either

12/24/2009 9:39:54 PM

^^Natal for the xbox360

I don't see how this is an issue, though. It's not as if black people are going to steal this sort of thing anyways.

12/24/2009 11:50:13 PM

you'd think Nikon would know about the whole squinty-eye thing.

12/26/2009 2:37:28 AM

the face recognition software in iphoto has a hard time recognizing black people are even in the picture and furthermore, cannot distinguish them when you finally do identify them (it recognizes other people i only have tagged once or twice but i can have a black person tagged 20 times in other photos and it still doesnt know who they are)

and this program will pick up the oddest shit in the background or on your clothing as a 'face' but 90% of the time it never found the black people, no matter the lighting

12/26/2009 8:35:40 AM

wtf!

12/26/2009 12:25:11 PM

I wonder how well it would find an injun like myself.

12/26/2009 3:16:18 PM

its the playstation eye

12/28/2009 11:26:31 AM