Currently being developed by a team at Duke University in Durham, and funded by Google, InSight is an app for Google Glass, which works to detect friends in a crowd. Now, we have been seeing face recognition stuff earlier as well, but here is the catch - this app does not identify the person from his/her face. Instead , it does something, which ACTUALLY can be termed super Smart.
It works by creating what is called as a 'fashion fingerprint' of a person's outfit, noting the clothes, accessories, all through a smartphone app (linked with Google Glass) , which then makes a detailed assay of the patterns , textures and colors . And this fingerprint changes with each change in outfit . Some early tests have shown it to be actually pretty handy, with a detection rate of 93% , that too if the subject has its back turned towards the viewer.
More uses of this app when it releases could be, as suggested by the team, in showing public messages hovering over your head in augmentative reality, along with as an aid for patients suffering from face blindness.
Source : Gizmag , Duke University
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