Postmortem: Huzon.tv – face recognition social marketing for TV news

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This seems like a very strange startup to me, but the solution is interesting.

The article says that processing of the MPEG2 (?) feed couldn't be done on an Atom processor but I wonder if hardware decoding would have helped here.

The main issue was face rec processing, not grabbing the images.

What's so weird about my startup? :)

I guess I'm just not that interested in my news presenters!

That said, our (public broadcaster) presenters are reasonably well known and seem to have a decent social media presence, at least on Twitter.

Do you think it would have been technically possible to eliminate images where a reporter is blinking (or in the process)?

When the reporter blinks, face rec fails entirely bc it can't find their pupils/eyes. This is why 2 frames per second performed so much more reliably than 1. The 5 or 6 second moving average scores were devastated by blinking when only 1 frame per second was considered. Less so with 2 frames per second.

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