Are 625 Pixels Enough To Identify Sex?

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Posted by timothy on Saturday April 16, 2011 @09:48PM
from the when-tweet-analysis-fails dept.

mikejuk writes "A Spanish research team have patented a video camera and algorithm that can tell the difference between males and females based on just a 25x25 pixel image. This means that there is enough information in such low resolution images to do the job! They also demonstrate that an old AI method, linear discriminant analysis, is as good and sometimes better than more trendy methods such as Support Vector Machines..."

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