RE: NOW:AI THEN : Face recognition WAS Car number plate capture/recognition

[Stuart Whyte <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Mark, 

Did you ever progress with having a voice-synchronised face on screed
(a'la
Holly, Red Dwarf)

Cheers

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 05 July 2002 10:27
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] NOW : Face recognition WAS Car number plate
capture/recognition


Thanks.

"The Milk Monster" is a person - my four-week old daughter... the
title was
given to her by Tim Morris, who was a bit surprised at how often she fed
:-)

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: David Paterson [mailto:david.paterson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 5 July 2002 10:26
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] NOW : Face recognition WAS Car number plate
capture/recognition


>What's the "state of the home art" when it comes to
"person recognition"
now?
>
>The more I think about it, the more I see "person
recognition" based on AIs
>and digital cameras as the only long-term solution to occupancy
detection.

It's probably the best way to get reliable recognition (I think). 
After
starting to look at the image processing area, I think at the moment
it's not quite practical unless you can throw huge amounts of
processing
at it.

Knowing the way technology improves I'd guess we could see reliable
systems coming on the market in less than 5 years time though.

>AFAIK, I'd want the system to tell me which (multiple) of the
following
were in a room:
>
>- Mark
>- Mary
>- The Milk Monster
>- The cleaner
>- Cat (subject to a maximum of 2)
>- "Anyone else"

One way to do it just now could be by measuring differences from a
baseline "unoccupied" image.  Based on the size of the
object you could
probably distinguish people from cats (or milk monsters?)

You could probably count the number of people or cats as well.

>I can see a future in which each room does different things depending
on
who's
>in it... for example if the cleaner's in a room, all the lights go up
to
max...
>if it's after dark, and any one _other_ than the cats goes onto the
landing, the
>lights go up to 20%... 

One day....  :-)  That sounds like my, and probably most
people's, idea
of the ultimate automated home, and we'll try our darndest to make it
happen.

If I can get a number plate reader working I'll maybe have a go at
occupancy detection as well.

DP



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