THIS is what AI, machine-learning and cloud is for!
We've found it! A cloud-and-AI angle on the royal wedding
The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle will be brought to the world with the help of cloudy machine learning. As AWS’ video processing limb Elemental recently revealed, “A video feed from an outside broadcast van located near St. George’s Chapel will capture faces of arriving guests and feed the signal to an AWS …
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 12:45 GMT macjules
If they are using the Met's AFR system then we should expect to see at least 2% success rate!
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 08:30 GMT JetSetJim
Re: Bet it won't ID me correctly
I can't wait for it to inevitably mis-identify people in an hilarious way (perhaps now is a good time for the visitors to the area to invest in print-outs of celebrity heads to crowd-source this), cos obviously I'll be watching the coverage avidly and not enjoying the (currently forecast) nice weather.
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 07:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
This wedding has plenty of IT angles and general privacy questions such as El Reg normally covers if you want to spend a few moments thinking about it.
Think about the known limitations of the emergency services IT kit and how that might affect any event like this.
Think about the other publicised events going on in Windsor that weekend.
Think about the number of people attending. And when they'll turn up.
Look at the pressure groups who have promised to disrupt the event.
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 08:35 GMT Korev
I'll raise you
I see that and raise you the the Harry and Meghan swimming costumes. Mind bleach maybe required (especially if you wonder where his chin is)...
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 11:00 GMT 's water music
Re: Now that
Absolutely fed up to the back teeth with this shit.
An antiquated, archaic system that should be disbanded.
Hang on. I based much of my IT career on antiquated, archaic system[s] that should be disbanded. Although, to be fair, some days I am also Absolutely fed up to the back teeth with
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 12:55 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
Re: Now that
@Fred Dibnah
Huge drop in number of royal wedding street parties compared to Will and Kate's big day
At the moment, Glasgow has no Street Parties booked for the day.
Elsewhere, however, one local government source told The Independent: “It may be that no-one gives a s**t."
icon: Harry's Apache Helicopter
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 10:27 GMT Cuddles
Accuracy?
I wonder if it's as good as the facial recognition system the police use? Representative quote - "staggeringly inaccurate".
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Tuesday 15th May 2018 13:37 GMT sebt27
"feed the signal to an AWS Elemental Live small form factor appliance located nearby for real-time ingest to an entirely cloud-based workflow.”
This, children, is what you'll sound like if you generate all your speech by "ingesting" bollox and putting it through an "entirely cloud-based workflow". Don't do it. It's not big and not clever.
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Wednesday 23rd May 2018 13:41 GMT Aodhhan
To be expected...
This is England... where everyone is on video all the time.
Rumor has it, if you are captured on video not watching the royal wedding festivities, you will be placed on the terror watch list. There is an exemption for those who were on a cricket pitch.
Not only is facial recognition being done, but they are also using software which does lip reading.
So those who appear to be pro-Brexit will also be put on a permanent watch list. Due to the limited amount of software licenses for this, it will only be used on cameras in middle to lower income areas.
Rich, elitists everywhere are exempt from any sort of camera spying technology, as long as they are against Brexit--which of course, most are.
Remember the large sunglasses used in the 1970s? Anticipate a widespread return. Soon, many in England may begin to wear burkas.