Microsoft rolls out mask detection to Azure Cognitive Services. And yes, there is a noseAndMouthCovered attribute

Microsoft has added mask detection, in preview form, to Azure Cognitive Services. The preview makes use of Spatial analysis, a capability of Computer Vision and part of Azure Cognitive Services. The vaguely unsettling functionality can be used to analyse real-time video in order to count people in a space (for maximum …

[druck]

It's been an hour...

...since this was published, so someone must have found a way to game it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: It's been an hour...

you could just wear the kind of mask _I_ wear whenever "it is required" (see icon)

[Ken Moorhouse]

noseAndMouthCovered

I wonder if they are thinking of introducing a TalkingOutOfHisArse attribute, which would be extremely beneficial

[Joe W]

Checks date...

... either my calendar is off by a month, or...

I need more coffee (preferably "corrected")

[Allan George Dyer]

More attributes needed...

Some places (e.g. Switzerland, Hong Kong) require masks in some circumstances, and ban them in others. Does it have useful attributes:

participatingInAnIllegalGathering

religiousDress

and configuration options:

globalPandemic = TRUE

we_reNotReligiouslyIntolerantBut = TRUE

[Bendacious]

Great massdebate

"Handy to know regardless of which side of the great mask debate the operator sits on." Tiny bit confused what this 'great mask debate' that you refer to is. Unless it's the one that goes on in my head about whether to verbally abuse the people I see wearing them below their noses in supermarkets. Wearing a mask protects other people from what you choose to expel from your nose and mouth. I don't suppose my mask protects me much, especially with my beard pushing it away from my face but the point is to protect others and if we all protect other people we all win. No debate to be had. Although there might be a debate about what to call the weird circular shapes my beard ends up with after wearing a mask for a while. Hat-hair on my face would be mask-beard I suppose but mask-face sounds better.

testing masks the Uncle Rob way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cTDGqcUpA