Facebook is convinced this man is his mother
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We have everyone at the service, in the pews and settled in. The lights dim, a projector screen rolls down and music starts to play. His music. Their slideshow was not exactly a slideshow, but an automatically generated remembrance DVD. It started with a flyover of some nature/rambling rivers and then rose into the air into parting clouds.
So far so good.
The DVD was an interspersing of stock nature footage and pictures of my brother. Face recognition algorithms were used to find where he was in each picture and slowly 'zoom' into them, or pan over to center on him. I think basically so that there was some sort of movement to the pictures.
But their software (or more likely the software they had licensed) hadn't gotten his face right. Instead it kept zooming in on family members and (tragically) cutting him out. Instead it zoomed in constantly on my sister. It was obvious that either the software didn't have a way to correct such errors, or that the funeral home hadn't bothered to preview the DVD before making it a part of the service.
We let the user choose custom zoom points but don't yet incorporate face recognition. As far as I am aware, none of our competitors have face recognition or even face detection.
Some funeral homes hire or outsource to a local videographer instead of using purpose-built software. It's possible that the videographer could have used a slideshow plugin with that feature and then combined it with the stock footage.
(Actually, after going through a lot of bogus suggestions over the course of a few months and correcting them, it's a lot better. But the joke doesn't work as well this way.)
You mean that if I eat more, groom a mightier beard and, ahem... wait for my hair loss to run its course, I will be immune to the spook-industrial-complex's tracking?
Pass the burgers, please!!!
You know what he meant :)
How can you say this? I certainly didn't; colloquialisms are often geographical in nature.[0]
I'm from south India/grew up in the middle east/studied on the east coast/worked on the west coast of the US, lived in Singapore and Thailand briefly. And there are definitely some colloquial usages that are fairly universal. In my experience this is one of them.
Please also note appended smiley face. Obviously not everyone is familiar with every colloquialism. It's too bad if you were confused by the implied meaning of "racist against", and if my clarification of its colloquial usage was insufficient for you, but i find your comment adding very little value here.
I do not doubt Facebook is running into problems because humans have a 3-dimensional perspective of time and events. It's the classic "why isn't mommy in any photos with us dad?" because she took them! Dad remembers, he was there. He's not seeing the photographs perspective, he's seeing his own perspective standing with his kids looking at his wife. To him his wife is in that photo even though she is visibly absent.