Team Creates Footwear Recognition System 50
Zothecula writes "Facial recognition might be all the rage in giving computer systems the ability to ascertain the identity of individuals — what with most people having different facial features and all. But a team from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has taken a different approach to identify users of touch-based tabletop computers like Microsoft's Surface. Instead of focusing on the face, the team has looked in the opposite direction to develop a system known as Bootstrapper, which distinguishes between users based on their footwear ."
First post. (Score:5, Funny)
If I don't get first post, I guess I was busy changing my shoes.
Seriously, the system is going to break the first time these developers are introduced to WOMEN.
Team Creates Footwear Recognition System (Score:5, Funny)
Team Creates Footwear Recognition System
Did the team consist of Sheldon and Penny?
designed by the introverted, for the introverted (Score:5, Funny)
How do you recognize an extroverted engineer? He looks at **your** shoes.