[Foundation-l] Fwd: Wikipedia christmas calendar?

[Anthony]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:51 AM, Waldir Pimenta <waldir at email.com> 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.

Are you talking about face detection or facial recognition?  The
former is implemented in some cell phones.  It's "not that complex".
The latter is more cutting edge, though surely the NSA has a good
implementation of it (as do many casinos).

Selecting pictures of people as opposed to bowling statistics would be
the former, right?