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New AI Can Search For People By Height, Gender And Clothing
The invention of AI is comparable to the discovery of electricity: everyone in the world is using it for anything and everything. However, applications to control man are already more advanced than anything history has ever revealed. ⁃ TN Editor
A team of AI researchers from India developed a tool to search for people in surveillance footage by height, clothing color, and gender. It’s like a search engine that can find people in a video.
The scientists used deep learning (and Microsoft’s COCO dataset) to train a convolutional neural network (CNN) how to recognize certain human features, called soft biometrics, using computer vision.
Basically, you can tell this AI some details about the person you’re looking for and it’ll scour whatever video you give it. For example, a request for “females wearing red shirts who are 153 cm tall” would, potentially, narrow down an entire video clip to just frames featuring people who meet that criteria.
According to researchers, the algorithm “correctly recovers 28 persons out of 41 in a very challenging dataset with soft biometric attributes.” Currently it only searches by height, torso (clothing) color, and gender.
At first glance the idea of identifying people in videos who meet relatively vague descriptions, and with accuracy that’s a little better than half, doesn’t sound like an important technological advance. But this early work shows plenty of potential. It’s worth asking what it would mean if accuracy could be improved beyond human capabilities.
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