The Future of Smart Photography

[JRminox]

Who needs a brain to shoot when the camera can do it for you?
http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/issues/2014/11/mmu2014030066.pdf
This article will be a hit with most of you. 😱

 

[sreed2006]

There are some technologies that just should not be developed. I think that this one is a good example. Another is the genetic modification of bird flu to make it more contagious. Just burn the notes on how to do it, and move on to something more useful to humanity.

(I am being only slightly tongue-in-cheek.)

 

[chikubi]

All well and good I suppose, but it's an ad for the app company disguised as an academic work. Which begs the question, "Do you really want a company that advertises as disingenuously as this to be responsible for controlling content on people's devices?"

I know I don't.

 

[lukitas]

It's already there.

I recently whiled away a sleepless hour on a B&H presentation of the Sony a6000. How it was wonderful, because it could recognise, then memorize faces, and then track the face in continuous auto-focus. Perfect for weddings!

I'm happy to turn my focus rings with my fingers, but I might be tempt to use the gimmick, if I ever got such a wonder of technology.

I'm much more afraid of the conjunction of face-recognition with large data-mining operations. Don't all bearded men look alike?

cheers

 

[Bill Clark]

Maybe there is hope for me since I fried my brain long ago!

Your camera doesn't make your photographs; your eyes do!

 

[michaelwj]

I love the caption to Figure 5:

"Smart photography used to block content. The recording of unwanted scenes, such as classified military objects or adult content, can be blocked automatically."

Or, as an alternative, if you don't want to record image of people *being intimate*, don't point your camera at them! Now that's smart photography!

Cheers,
Michael