Google Street View blurs Colonel Sanders everywhere.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/technology/google/5356031/Google-Street-View-blurs-face-of-Colonel-Sanders-at-every-KFC.html

by olefoo • 17 years ago

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Maciek416• 17 years ago

I'm suddenly reminded of the uncanny valley ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley ). Google's algorithm would appear to still be in stuffed animal territory. I wonder if Google will gradually tweak their algorithm to become better at identifying real faces with these logos will gradually reappear in Street View...

Or perhaps we'll see them gradually recognizing logos and other things and indexing them?

pert• 17 years ago

The article didn't need to be more than the title and the picture, but that's modern "journalism" for you...

SamAtt• 17 years ago

Ironically Colonel Sanders was ashamed of the franchise (last paragraph: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harland_Sanders#Death_and_legac...) so I think he'd approve of this :)

iigs• 17 years ago

Wow. That man did not hold back words. He'd have done great on 4chan.

I tried some of their "Grilled" chicken yesterday and I suspect he'd also not approve of that. It was not very good.

ieatpaste• 17 years ago

The algorithm probably only categorizes faces opposed to identifies faces - to recognize a logo vs human is a waste of time.

jcl• 17 years ago

However, he is still visible from space, via Google Maps:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

mattj• 17 years ago

I don't know if anyone else has ever noticed this, but lots of street view pictures will have random face shaped blurs on walls and such. My guess is google has set a very low false-negative threshold for face identification, and are thus willing to tolerate blurring lots of non-face objects (which isn't really much of a loss, anyways, and definitely tolerable if it means the difference between every real face being blurred and missing 1 out of 100).

Google Street View blurs Colonel Sanders everywhere.

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