In some way I guess this is another example of Artificial Intelligence (by which we mean Machine Learning) taking work away from skilled technicians, but human recall has been replaced with facial identification at the recent Royal Wedding in the UK, where Amazon’s facial recognition technology was used to identify guests arriving sat the wedding.
Users of Sky News’ livestream were able to use a “Who’s Who Live” function:
As guests arrived at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, the function identified royals and other notable guests through on-screen captions, interesting information about each celebrity and how they are connected to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
The function was made possible by Amazon Rekognition, a cloud-based technology that uses AI to recognize and analyze faces, as well as objects, scenes and activities in images and video. And Sky News isn’t the first to use it: C-SPAN utilizes Rekognition to tag people speaking on camera.
Rekognition is also being used by law enforcement.
Facial recognition and identification would obviously be useful for logging in reality and documentary production.
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The other broadcasters just used people with the knowledge 🙂
Yes, that was my point. Other broadcasters use much more expensive people with knowledge. That’s what is being replaced here.