Team Creates Footwear Recognition System 50
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from the these-boots-were-made-for-coding dept.
from the these-boots-were-made-for-coding dept.
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 ."
Women look at shoes first; men look at asses first (Score:4, Insightful)
The developers clearly are women. If it was developed by men it would be an ass recognition system.