[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

[Neil Harris]

Waldir Pimenta wrote:
> Nikola Smolenski wrote:
>
>   
>> Magnus Manske wrote:
>>     
>>>> One bug: I got a graph of Imran Khan's bowling statistics rather than
>>>> his portrait...
>>>>         
>>> And if you give me code to identify a person's image, I'll be happy to
>>> implement it, as would the NSA. As it stands, I chose a random article
>>>       
>> Google image search has it, so it's not that complex. Not that I suggest
>> you should implement it in PHP :)
>>
>>     
>
> It *is* complex. Yes, it's not impossible; yes, it's been done. But that
> doesn't mean it's simple or easy. Btw, Magnus, thanks for building that
> demo. It's great for putting this idea in perspective! :)
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There's a review of the state of the art in face detection at
http://vision.ai.uiuc.edu/mhyang/face-detection-survey.html , if you are
looking for ideas for algorithms.

-- Neil