This seems like it can be used to lower the bar for (repressive) governments to identify people.<p>E.g. by making it easier to distinguish parts of the body, identification via them, or gait analysis, becomes easier.<p>Are there compelling use cases that make this risk worth it?<p>Or are we just producing tech because we can?
This update is for the 2.0 version.<p>It's a shame there isn't a Python TF implementation of this (apparently due to a different file structure between the tf.js model and TF SavedModel?), and it doesn't sound like it's a priority for the team.
When I was a lot younger, I used to play softair sometimes with my friends (wargames with BBs gun). I seriously researched ways to build automatic turrets.<p>Rules are simple: shoot at a foe until it raises its hand, that means the person was shot.<p>Unfortunately (?), the available software at the time was subpar, and I forgot about it because of two problems:<p>* How to identify a foe? It would need facial/body recognition from a few set of examples (team pictures before starting, better if it shots everything else).<p>* How to know when to stop shooting?<p>These new technologies would make almost trivial to build such an application, and make it quite reliable. I guess there is a market for this in softair... I'm even tempted to have a go at it, BUT... I don't think I will because I now have to ponder the ethics of building something that can take a gun, identify targets, aim at them accurately, and fire until they are down. I am usually all in on open source software, but that's just the kind of things that sound dangerous to share (same as defense distributed, TBH).<p>I hope enough persons share the same misgivings, otherwise there is no point for me to refrain from building this. (Except perhaps spending my time on project that are actually useful for humankind).
Since I quit smoking, I noticed how many tv-series and movies are loaded with cigarettes, alcohol and pharmacy pill consumption. Almost every social event good and bad on screen is dealt with by drinking a shot of liquor. Is this my personal paradigm or are we constantly fed with what we should view as our western culture?<p>I wonder if it is possible to make an estimation per actor / producer / studio how many alcoholic, drug, cigarette they consume on average. Would be awesome to see if there is a correlation with project budget. And maybe even more important is there an increasing trend of average number of drug consumptions per hour.
JavaScript is about my fifth favorite language - way down the scale of languages that I enjoy using.<p>That said, I think TensorFlow.js is awesome on so many things: examples are easy understand and the build system makes them easy to run, many possibilities for using trained models in browser based apps, on my Linux GPU deep learning box training models is fast, great documentation, etc.<p>In some ways I like the TensorFlow.js ecosystem better than the C++/Python ecosystem.<p>So far, Swift TensorFlow has been a disappointment for me, but every few months I check it out again.
is there a serverside version of this. I've been looking for somethign similar in python all day. Actually seems a little buggy seeing this test -> <a href="https://superanimo.com/bodypix/" rel="nofollow">https://superanimo.com/bodypix/</a>
Wow that's impressive.<p>Is this library MIT license or something else? I would try using this to cutout people from images/gifs for my animation platform SuperAnimo:<p><a href="https://www.superanimo.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.superanimo.com</a>