Apple iPhone X Couldn’t Distinguish Between Chinese Faces

[Svnla]

Apple is not alone, not just Chinese but

This would not be the first case in which facial recognition software, and the AI behind it, has had trouble recognizing non-white faces.

In 2015, Google Photos accidentally tagged a photo of two African-Americans as gorillas, while in 2009, [HP computers] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM) had trouble recognizing and tracking black faces – but no problem with white faces. That same year, Nikon’s camera software was caught mislabeling an Asian face as blinking.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-iphone-x-couldn-t-181910601.html

 

[Mayne]

this is a big surprise to iphone users/chinese people?

 

[BoomerD]

 

[IronWing]

So much this.

 

[dainthomas]

Made in China you'd think it would be the other way around.

 

[sdifox]

So how did they QC? :awe:

 

[AMDisTheBEST]

Can it distinguish German face from an Anglo-American face? Can it even tell if you’re a guy or girl?

 

[IronWing]

Can it distinguish German face from an Anglo-American face? Can it even tell if you’re a guy or girl?

It can tell if you're gay or even bi-curious.

 

[kage69]

Can it distinguish German face from an Anglo-American face? Can it even tell if you’re a guy or girl?

With the Lord Varys Update, it knows what you had for breakfast 3 days ago.

 

[AMDisTheBEST]

With the Lord Varys Update, it knows what you had for breakfast 3 days ago.

Can it do my laundry and cook breakfast for me also?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

It can tell if you're gay or even bi-curious.

You mean by the fact that it's an iPhone owner to begin with? 😀

Facial recognition software has to be trained with a large dataset. Which a lot of companies seem to forget.

 

[urvile]

They are obviously using a shit facial recognition algorithm.

It's really funny given the industry leading facial recognition algorithm is from an asian company.

Maybe it's deliberate. Japanese vs Chinese....what a crock of shit. Sorry OP but it is total BS.

Seriously. I would be interested to know which facial recognition algorithm they are using. Because this stuff is used in airports worldwide and works just fine.

Maybe apple use an algorithm that is weighted towards anlgos but I doubt it. I need more info OP. Give it to me. To put it another way it is purely mathematical

Just to add typically companies like apple don't develop their own facial recognition algorithms but license a third party algorithm that does it for them. This wouldn't be much use if it couldn't identify people across different ethnic groups.

Maybe they have developed their own algorithm that is focused on Caucasians but why?

 

[blankslate]

iPhones are racist?

explains a lot actually...














j/k

but meh on iOS



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[spacejamz]

 

[ElFenix]

 

[HomerJS]

Don't you mean,

did someone brink?

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Maybe they have developed their own algorithm that is focused on Caucasians but why?

Apple didn't develop anything, they bought a western company that had such tech. Just like they'll add some eyetracking feature soon based on a more recent purchase.

 

[urvile]

Apple didn't develop anything, they bought a western company that had such tech. Just like they'll add some eyetracking feature soon based on a more recent purchase.

Not surprising. No one really does. They get the technology from a third party and incorporate it in their products. Developing effective biometric recognition algorithms is highly specialised and very hard.