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That is an almost impossible stat to believe.

My last contract I worked developing a biometric system to extract a consistent "headshot" from all the various mugshots from arrest records in the US, and I worked with the Kairos system to extract pixel coordinate data from the images.

The API calls gave me a lot more then just pixel information, and one of the data points was skin color and it was correct like 98% of the time.

Now, of course, it's possible that posed mugshots deliver a much more consistent image quality then surveillance cams would, but 33% seems suspiciously high to me.



Getting a person's skin color right is not a high enough bar to let them into your apartment.

I don't want every white person getting into mine, and I can't imagine they would be fine with every black person getting into theirs.


Sun glasses, haircuts, hats.. 33% failure rate in real life is very plausible.

And even 2% rate would get old very fast. That is once a week...




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