Monday 29 June 2009

Reinterpreting reality

I can imagine someone combining speech recognition technology with television set-top boxes to produce automatic censoring of common curse words as a feature. I can also then imagine writers turning to more unusual profanity to get through the censors and even classes for actors to teach them how to inflect their voices to avoid the most common brands of auto-censor. It could be a kind of arms race.

Another use to which I can imagine real-time signal processing being applied is "x-ray specs" that recognise humans and project naked versions over the top. This one would motivate fashion designers and perhaps tattoo artists to create clothes and markings to fool the image recognition.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Tattoos to fool image recognition is not a new concept.
PPS - But the other times I'm aware of it were for face recognition.

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