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From: Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com>
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Subject: Re: Any ideas for writing a decoder?
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:23:28 -0600 (CST)
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On Feb 2, 12:27=A0am, Gordon Burditt <gordon.k8...@burditt.org> wrote:
>
> First, figure out what it is you want this program to do, in the
> form of a short description that someone else can understand.
> Identify inputs and outputs of images for the program (files? =A0
> live cameras? =A0displays?)
>
There's a difference between what you want the program to achieve and
what you want it to do.

For instance we might want to make pornographic movies watchable but
acceptable to a censor.

However a very sophisticated AI and image-processing approach might be
beyond our ability. So what we want it to do is recognise human skin
colours and change them to black.
We'll probably find that such a simple program is too crude, blacking
out faces whilst leaving non-white girls in a state of undress. But it
might be the best that can reasonably be achieved, and might be  a lot
better than no censorship at all.
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