Age and gender detection?

[Norbi_K_]

Hey guys, there used to be age (group) and gender recognition in the perception sdk, was it dropped from the SDK, or is it in the RealSense SDK as well hidden somewhere deep?

Thanks,

Norbi

[jarikus]

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[samontab]

I don't think those features are available in the RealSense SDK.

Personally, I think it is because they are really hard to estimate from just an image of a face, so I reckon they just dropped the support of it because it was not performing well. Not a fault of the camera or the SDK by the way, just how age and gender estimation from a face image works. You may be able to develop a small demo working fine for some people and scenes, but for production it is not good at all.

[Norbi_K_]

Thanks guys. I totally understand. What throws me off is that in the documentation they have a section where a sample data type description is provided for developers, and it does refer to gender and age detection. Not sure if it's just left there and forgotten about. 

[AndreCarlucci]

Norbi, could you post the link to the section you're talking about?

[Norbi_K_]

Found it in the docs, here: https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/realsense/camera-sdk/v1.1/documentation/html/index.html?devguide_descriptive_text_for_data_type.html

[samontab]

I reckon it is either an old reference that just wasn't removed, or it is there for future plans.

Something similar can be seen here:

https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/realsense/camera-sdk/v1.1/documentation/html/index.html?sample_pxccapture.html

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Those streams (left and right) are not available in this camera.