whoiscomingto.party

AI

face recognition

SHOW HN2020

64points
17comments
#926of 3,028 in 2020
Top 31%of 2020 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

2 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Idea: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Neat demo and cool project

    From 2 comments
    • Me and my friend had thought about this idea back when we were in college except we were doing it for class attendance. The professor would take a snap with his phone and then…
      rohan1024 on HN
    • Very neat demo. I can imagine putting something like this into a sort of robot butler for house-guests. "I'm afraid the person you're seeking isn't in right now; shall I tell…
      shadowgovt on HN
  • Ideas for reuse as a house-guest robot butler

    From 1 comment
    • Very neat demo. I can imagine putting something like this into a sort of robot butler for house-guests. "I'm afraid the person you're seeking isn't in right now; shall I tell…
      shadowgovt on HN

Objections

  • Ethical concerns about releasing face recognition code publicly

    From 1 comment
    • I'm sorry to say this because you probably worked hard and did a good technical job. But as AI/DL experts we always need to think about ethical concerns related to our work, and…
      martopix on HN
  • Privacy concerns about running face recognition on guests

    From 2 comments
    • This does seem cool, but I would also not want to come to your party if you're going to be running facial recognition on me...
      BillinghamJ on HN
    • While this is only a personal project for fun, please keep in mind that some countries, such as Germany, have strict laws about personal data. And even if they do not have those,…
      Bheliar on HN
  • Data protection laws such as Germany's may apply

    From 1 comment
    • While this is only a personal project for fun, please keep in mind that some countries, such as Germany, have strict laws about personal data. And even if they do not have those,…
      Bheliar on HN
  • Unbalanced datasets may fail to recognize some guests

    From 1 comment
    • While this is only a personal project for fun, please keep in mind that some countries, such as Germany, have strict laws about personal data. And even if they do not have those,…
      Bheliar on HN

Requests

  • Add face authentication and liveliness detection

    From 1 comment

Questions

  • Where is the weights folder located

    From 1 comment
    • You make reference to a "weights" folder, but I'm not seeing it in the repo - am I looking in the wrong place? EDIT: My mistake, you said it was in the library repo and there it…
      YourNewOverlord on HN

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