[spewilly]

that's uh... quite a name...

[m12k]

I guess it's a reference to how the algorithm zooms in on a smaller region of the image before picking out an object.

[tabtab]

Then how about "Zoomer" instead?

[xbryanx]

And killing it

[codeulike]

It's a really really bad name for an object detection system

[superflyguy]

Why? Let's be honest, the main use for most of this new ai tech is going to be military.

[hutzlibu]

Why?

Cars, household-robots, etc. all need to get around as well.

[089723645897236]

Sometimes you just gotta aim at the head.

[tabtab]

Re: "Let's be honest, the main use...going to be military."

While perhaps true, usually one finds a friendlier name regardless, in order to hide or reduce the perception of association with war. It's why we have a "Dept. of Defense" instead of a "Dept. of Offense" or "Dept. of War". I'm not necessarily condoning such a practice, merely making an observation of product and project naming practices.

[tridentlead]

We used to have a Department or War

[mmjaa]

You still do, its just given itself a more palatable name..

[justaaron]

I see that Uber was using this in Az back in March...

[erk__]

Well his other project is called SSH

[jazoom]

Ha. I thought you meant he was the creator of THE "SSH". Nope. It's just another machine learning library.

[wukerplank]

I understand it was probably meant tongue in cheek. Still, very unfortunate naming.

[jazoom]

Just be thankful it was this project and not the upcoming face detector mentioned at the bottom of the readme.

[no_identd]

Perhaps he'll call that "Crosshair".

[ferongr]

It's not named babyseekingbrutalkiller9000, meh.

[tabtab]

Darnit, you guessed my password ;-)

[_pastel]

It's an acronym: Scale Normalization for Image Pyramids with Efficient Resampling.

[tabtab]

So up next is "Bi-Linear Object Oriented Detection"?