"Now it just needs to get its strumpet-arse-blurring algorithm working properly. ®" ...... http://regmedia.co.uk/2009/04/27/madrid_street_view_grab_2.jpg

Lester,

I would just like to say that I think it is working just perfectly the way it is. Although higher definition for deeper involvement is always a respectable goal for an Algorithm on AIMission. :-)

Did you really just write an article on street view's face detection working exactly as it should do? "Face blurring technology found to blur faces, more at 11"

Colonel Sanders caught eating at Burger King:

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2573370&id=692672237

but posters as well apparantly

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kfc&sll=51.49282,-0.231872&sspn=0,359.986181&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=51.492549,-0.229686&panoid=G7ftlTUozpS6b64Hzl8VhA&cbp=12,336.31,,0,0.67&ll=51.492553,-0.229855&spn=0,359.972363&z=15&iwloc=A

You seem to be forgetting what Google is all about, and how it raises it revenues.

I believe it is only a matter of time before all such street-side establishments receive a bill through the door, from Google "For advertising services provided by Street View"

(Notice the intentional omission of the "Joke Alert" icon)

While what you said in jest, the fact that KFC has made the request shows that it is going through the motions to protect its trademark.

Google is complying with the request because even if the 'street view' shot was taken in the public, the use is part of a 'for profit' venture. So they either have to compenstate KFC or comply.

So what we should all do is trademark the front face of our houses and then order Google to blur them out! ;-)

more likely then not, the face detection algo decided that the cartoon Col. Sanders was a real person, not that KFC is protecting their trademark.

actually because of the context, it is in actual reference to KFC, this is not a trademark violation.

More proof that the incomplete blurring of the face that they're doing DOESN'T DO A DAMN THING to protect the privacy of those they snap. Asshats.

Goto Google Maps, type in 54 Great Russell St, Camden Town click on Street view and there is Paddington Bear and he's still got a face....

Google protecting innocent pubs..

He gets around...also spotted at Trafalgar Square (unblurred, of course!):

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?layer=c&cbll=51.507258,-0.127481&panoid=ZX7jlmg9lV4npvbYU3uBUw&cbp=12,289.26,,1,10.89&ie=UTF8&ll=51.507434,-0.127995&spn=0,359.985859&z=16

At first I thought he'd been digitally inserted, but you can also see him from the opposite side of the roundabout.

Its clear that this is the first indicator of an imminent invasion, I had been stockpiling marmalade sandwiches to bribe our hairy overlords but now I've been told I need Marmite instead....

at least they did! i salute them :)

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