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Fumesucker

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9. Detecting warm bodies is one thing, reliably detecting human beings would require software

Reply to MADem (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 06:46 AM

Dec 2012

Software which could then be set to figuring out what people are doing, something it would have to do as part of detecting people in the first place.

This sounds like something corporate Amercia would cream its jeans over.

It's nearly astounding how much info that can be pulled out of a not very sophisticated sensor if you have enough computer power. I have software running on my pc right now that will display a reasonably clear picture from a webcam video feed so dark and noisy you can't see anything there at all before processing.

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Microsoft Wants to Build Creepy ‘Consumer Detector’ That Charges for content by how many in a room [View all] HiPointDem Dec 2012 OP

So, if you've got a couple of Irish wolfhounds, they get charged as people? MADem Dec 2012 #1

if they can recognize who's in the room, they can tell who's watching & who's a wolfhound. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #3

I don't think people will put up with that shit. MADem Dec 2012 #6

they put up with it already. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #7

Well, not in my house, they don't! nt MADem Dec 2012 #15

I'd start with something like this Fumesucker Dec 2012 #11

Detecting warm bodies is one thing, reliably detecting human beings would require software Fumesucker Dec 2012 #9

Anything that will reliably detect people in a room will be able to tell what they are doing Fumesucker Dec 2012 #2

What a horrible idea. LOL. RedCappedBandit Dec 2012 #4

/\ This/\ renie408 Dec 2012 #5

Hear hear. In_The_Wind Dec 2012 #8

One final thought on this Fumesucker Dec 2012 #10

Big Brother is Watching You Berlum Dec 2012 #12

One more story that makes me glad I cut the cable customerserviceguy Dec 2012 #13

didn't nielsen have this technology on their cable boxes long ago rsweets Dec 2012 #14

no. & nielsen paid the household to collect its info; the household didn't pay nielsen. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #16