Here’s an example of how Hulu’s face-matching feature works. You just point your mouse at the actor’s face, and it pops up a tooltip showing both the actor’s name and their character’s name, along with a brief actor bio.
…This is, like, the best thing since closed captioning for me.
And here I was thinking nobody was considering the assistive-tech uses of facial recognition software. (Or maybe they still weren’t, and were actually thinking of…I dunno, some other use for this that doesn’t spring to mind.)
(I just hope it isn’t the face-equivalent of Youtube’s auto-“captions”. And that it becomes more widespread.)
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