Several sources have reported that Google is developing an app called InSight for its Glass project and the search engine giant has also provided funds for the development of the app. Based on the reports InSight enables users to recognise people from their clothes rather than their facial features. After reading these reports many found the idea unlikely because their seems to be no reason to recognize people based on their clothing. This has raised doubts about the authenticity of the report. It has now been revealed that the report was not correct completely.
However, before rolling out the actual details first you need to understand what InSight actually is:
“Wearable cameras and displays, such as the Google Glass, are around the corner. This paper explores techniques that jointly leverage camera-enabled glasses and smartphones to recognize individuals in the visual surrounding. While face recognition would be one approach to this problem, we believe that it may not be always possible to see a person’s face. Our technique is complementary to face recognition, and exploits the intuition that colours of clothes, decorations, and even human motion patterns, can together make up a “fingerprint”. When leveraged systematically, it may be feasible to recognize individuals with reasonable consistency.”
The associate professor of the University of South Carolina, Srihari Nelakuditi, who is a part of team behind InSight, was asked whether they developed the app for Google’s Glass project, and his reply was “Actually, that’s not true. We don’t have Google Glass. We haven’t done anything with Glass.” To further clarify the picture, Nelakuditi said that the developers had actually created a Glass-like situation by using “an Android phone with PivotHead’s camera-enabled shades for testing purposes,” according to Gizmodo. Therefore, a lot of people immediately jumped to the conclusion that InSight is a Glass app.
Talking to Gizmodo, Nelakuditi also divulged that he and his three other colleagues Xuan Bao, Romit Roy Choudhury, and He Wang who are from Duke University have been working on the app and decided to apply for the Faculty Research Award from Google and they ended up winning. So people thought that Google might have provided funds to develop InSight, which is not true.
As far as the usage of InSight is concerned Nelakuditi said that they have developed it to use in situations where either a user looking to catch a ride back home from office or “when you’re trying to hawk an extra ticket outside a theatre or stadium and need a visual cue for others to acknowledge,” according to Gizmodo.
Source: Gizmodo
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