I hope that’s not a prank with someone off-cam just moving the webcam around. If it is, I have a feeling HP’s lawyers will be looking for him. And if that is real, HOLY CRAP! Do no black people work in HP’s R&D department?
OMG – he had me laughing so hard! Especially when he would sneak in the frame and the camera would freeze. Hilarious!
It’s really a contrast issue – the computer doesn’t recognize his face because the color values are all too close – there is no clearly defined eye nose and mouth contrast – so he is totally right – it IS “racist” in that it can’t recognize a dark colored face. It needs a far more subtle contrast ratio to see his face. I bet cameras have the same issue! How ridiculous is it that they didn’t test more for that?
A similar thing happened when the first sensor water faucet things in public restrooms were put out. A friend’s dad who worked on it said they didn’t bother to test darker skin – just didn’t think about it. So, the water would turn on if you were light skinned, then nothing for a darker person.
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9 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.I think he should be happy. I don’t like the effect when it’s working.
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This does beg the obvious question: why would you want that feature anyway?
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I hope that’s not a prank with someone off-cam just moving the webcam around. If it is, I have a feeling HP’s lawyers will be looking for him. And if that is real, HOLY CRAP! Do no black people work in HP’s R&D department?
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OMG – he had me laughing so hard! Especially when he would sneak in the frame and the camera would freeze. Hilarious!
It’s really a contrast issue – the computer doesn’t recognize his face because the color values are all too close – there is no clearly defined eye nose and mouth contrast – so he is totally right – it IS “racist” in that it can’t recognize a dark colored face. It needs a far more subtle contrast ratio to see his face. I bet cameras have the same issue! How ridiculous is it that they didn’t test more for that?
Sheesh!
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White contact lenses? (a la Star Trek TNG…)
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Sounds like a feature to me…you’ll be glad the software can’t track your face when the inevitable robot apocalypse occurs….
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LOL. or when you move off camera to change your clothes and forget the feature is still on.
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I’ve never known a “Wanda” or a “Desi/Dezy” – just on the big/small screen…
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A similar thing happened when the first sensor water faucet things in public restrooms were put out. A friend’s dad who worked on it said they didn’t bother to test darker skin – just didn’t think about it. So, the water would turn on if you were light skinned, then nothing for a darker person.
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