Hewlett Packard (HP) has been known for its technologies is quite innovative. But apparently not all of HP’s innovation applies universally. The proof of recent software technology web camera besutan HP accused of racism.Why? As it turns out the software face recognition (facial recognition) besutan that HP could not work properly when confronted with the face of black people. This was revealed after a recent showing a viral video on YouTube that busy in talking.
The video will ‘sue’ Deluxe Web Camera HP technology that features the ‘facial technology tracks’. Should, with the technology, the HP Deluxe web camera capable of recognizing a person’s face and automatically follow the movements of the face.
In a video on YouTube earlier, HP Deluxe web camera does not face difficulties when confronted with Wanda, a white woman. Web camera could follow the motion Wanda’s face from side to side, zoom in and zoom out when Wanda’s face back and forth.
But when confronted with a web camera that Desi’s face, a black man, it turns out, the camera failed to do the same thing. The camera would not budge despite Desi faces swaying to and fro.
“I think my skin is black affects the ability of a tool to follow the movements of my face,” said Daisy. Later, smiling Desi said, “Hewlett-Packard computers are racist.”
Meanwhile, HP’s own parties shocked by this incident. “We have been informed of the existence of a problem with facial tracking software on some HP systems. It seems such a thing could happen due to lack of light in the background face (foreground),” said HP spokeswoman, was quoted by the BBC website.
Furthermore, HP is very serious claim to handle this, and is trying hard to overcome these problems with their partners.