software for gender recognition

[mrswolf]

Hi all,

it been a while I've discovered some rumors about existing software which could estimate your gender using a photo. Did anybody hear about such programs? I've found facefacts gender on appstore, played a while, but not sure if it could be reliable? Are there special software for taking medicine and estimate how your face changes? Did anyone had experience with such programs? Any ideas?

[FTMax]

There is a website called Pictriev where you can upload a photo and it will estimate your gender and age.

[sam1234]

That sounds a little scary. Can someone else whom you have sent a picture to  submit your picture and so that?
i'm all for the world wide web, but that sounds like it could be a privacy issue.

sam1234

[FTMax]

As far as I know, you could submit whatever photos you like. Doesn't even necessarily have to be someone you know. Could be a celebrity. It doesn't store the pictures as far as I can tell. Harmless.

[suzifrommd]

I tried it with my wig on. 20% male 80% female. 44 yrs old (off by 9 years).

Tried it without my wig. Said it wasn't a face... 

[natashaX]

Try skybiometry

[Jessie Ann]

I like using rekognition.com.  It has been better than any of the other sites out there.

Yes you, or anyone for that matter, can use any digital photo to upload for analysis. 

[alexis.j]

Hiya.
I tried "pictriev" out more than a year ago (im fairly sure it was pictriev), and was very disappointed with the results...
So, just for fun, I recently tried it again, after 10mnths HRT, and now get between 80-90% female.
Just out of curiosity, I tried photos of me just before HRT, and various stages during transition, and noticed the percentage going up as time went by. (very noticeable from about 6 months)

I had an ID photos taken several months ago, and ones recently, which I personally cannot see much of a difference between them, but the software reveals a huge difference.
Again, what I see, and what others see, also seems totally different... Friends and family have mentioned face changes, but cannot point anything out to me.

BTW, a wig does not really make a big difference, it shill showed 9x% male pre HRT.

I'm curious what the software actually focuses on, to determine gender.

[Rejennyrated]

I don't know why anyone would use these anyway. They're all rubbish - the algorthimns are quite clearly rather crap. Nobody ever genders me as male, yet these are all marginally convinced I may be, meanwhile my bearded male friend from uni got told he was female with high onfidence and my bio lesbian friend who is certainly not trans in ANY way, was told she was male with an even higher certainty than me - so what sort of confidence are you really going to have in that sort result. In our small suvery it was 100% WRONG!

Besides as we should all know there is FAR more to sex and gender than simplistic biometrics - which is why these software driven algorithms written by a lot of AS/aspergers type hyper logical software engineers with less than zero comprehension of the complexity of humanity, are just an excercise in the naive conning the gullible out a shed load of money for a product that simply cant ever work properly.

Seriously this is a turkey of a product, written by people who are terminally simplistic and naive, and it wont take long for advertisers, police forces, and other potential customers to realise it isnt yet capable of delivering the goods in reality. (and Indeed probably never will be for all the reasons already stated).