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		smorrow on Sept 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloud images that are recognized as human faces by... > It's amusing the way FACE-DETECTION in my spiffy digital camera (an Olympus EM1) will find faces in all kinds of inanimate objects. They set out to specifically look for faces. So that's what they'll find.

jrapdx3 on Sept 16, 2014 [–]

But when it finds a "face" and it's really a pile of old flower pots--not even close to a concept of "human face"--now that's amusing.

It shows the limits of the technology, but as in the article, technological quirks can sometimes be exploited creatively.

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