[hackerspaces] A call to all hackerspaces

Jesse Sanford jessesanford at gmail.com
Tue Oct 18 19:02:43 CEST 2011


very interesting... albeit only in low light circumstances. Anything
with a high enough contrast could work though. I imagine false
positives are a bit of an issue.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Yves Quemener <quemener.yves at free.fr> wrote:
> You could be interested by this
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/10/noisebridges-3rd-birthday-party-end.html
>
> On 10/18/2011 05:45 PM, Jesse Sanford wrote:
>> I personally am interested in this project as well as "localized"
>> voting possibly only allowing those physically present within a
>> certain square footage to vote on a topic. Using the gps on devices (*
>> which could also be spoofed) or using access points with limited
>> wireless range and requiring users to be paired with them in order to
>> vote might work.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:43 AM, Jesse Sanford <jessesanford at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> If you are already thinking of collecting faces you are basically
>>> asking people to give up their anonymity (a whole different issue all
>>> together) why not just collect phone numbers or serial numbers from
>>> the devices being used to vote with. User who own multiple devices
>>> could obviously vote twice or more but within any voting system there
>>> will always be a certain percentage able to game it. You have to build
>>> your algo with that in mind.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Yves Quemener <quemener.yves at free.fr> wrote:
>>>> On 10/18/2011 05:10 PM, Dan Wobser wrote:
>>>>> Although with a high end software like the
>>>>> one I worked on, we were dealing with databases of hundreds of thousands of
>>>>> poor quality images and still getting over 90% accuracy.
>>>>
>>>> Wow, when was that ? I did not think you could have such a big database
>>>> nowadays with a reasonable error rate
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