PiPhone?

Ben Heck made one a few years back iirc.

Facial recognition is a much abused term.

Facial recognition as in “this is a face” is quite reliable and should be called face detection. I’ll be installing a camera capable of this soon in the entrance to a care home (they will eventually have ANPR as well).

Facial recognition as in this is Joe Bloggs isn’t reliable, indeed there’s a lot of misinformation about it’s capabilities, but being able to throw the power of AWS processing at it is a good move. It’s only going to be looking at your own data though. so the question is why would you want to be told that it’s someone you would recognize anyway? What are the £ costs?

I like finding geeky solutions to niche ‘issues’, as its these small steps that lead to places that we could not of been foreseen.

I see loads of geeky stuff, and although most pass me by, some I like and adopt early, some of them fizzle out, some end up mainstream years later.

I like to keep an open mind, these “silly” looking projects, even the fallers often have benifits.

Lessons learned and all that.

The majority believed a home computer stupid once. Same TV, the mobile and the smartphone. I’m sure the car was laughed at once, especially as in the early days it offered nothing a house and cart do at a fraction of the cost.

I’m still all in on face recognition glasses that pop up a little ID contact info of people as I meet them. Not cos I’m noisy, mainly because I just forget names, like really really badly. It’s probably a marker for the dementia that runs on the male side of the family, I’m sure. So the quicker the recognition smart glass (or contacts) appear the better.

Dam Google and them scrapping the project! Lol

My old company used to have business cards that had a photo as well as a name, position etc. From your comments, you would not be surprised at the number of people that appreciated receiving such a card. It was even more valuable in Asia where all the Gweilos (white devil ghosts)  and Gweipos (white devil women) look the same to the residents!

They were actually pretty useful within the company as you could refresh your memory of names/faces before a meeting, and not have to hold an entire conversation without using someone’s name.

I found this research paper interesting. It needs a lot of grunt to train a face recognition AI data set (a top of the line nVidia graphics card running flat out for nearly an hour). However once you have your trained matrix, things get computationally easier. In fact you can run the face detection and face recognition on a raspberry pi in under one second. Add on a bit of processing time for voice synthesis and you could probably set up a practical working body cam just using a Pi that would probably do thirty percent of what you would want from your Google Glasses.

Sounds like the sort of tech that could be of real value to the Bobby on the Beat for recognizing crims — oh damn, we got rid of all them plus all the PCSOs. Ah well !that is just typical of our technically ignorant Home Secretaries, and politicians!