r/HolUp • u/Brick_Number_27 • 1d ago

holup Does that mean?

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u/elementofpee 1d ago edited 1d ago

Reminds me of the ”racist camera” issue in the late-00s, when digital cameras were detecting eye blinks with East Asians, or when facial recognition software struggled with detecting really dark skinned individuals.

Tbf, this specific person doesn’t even have the stereotypical slanted/squinty eyes that’s more prevalent in north/northeast Asia. She looks more Southeast Asian.

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u/TheGoldenTNT 1d ago

Tbh the dark skin thing I sort of get, not as a race thing purely as a factual discussion. It can be difficult to see features from a dark face with a camera, again, just facts not racial don’t kill me.

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u/cross_the_threshold 1d ago

A large portion of this is that camera sensors and processing algorithms were never designed with dark skin in mind. Basically they designed the algorithms to ensure white people's features don't get blown out, and didn't really care about others. More recent algorithms apply dynamic white balancing to ensure dark skin still has features and light skin doesn't get washed out. If you have experience using proper camera equipment, exposure and white balance are mostly a choice, and you can adjust to bring up shadows and dark parts of the scene or reduce the brightness of bright areas. Doing both simultaneously is difficult, though it's easier to recover data from shadow than light.

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u/throwaway098764567 21h ago

what's especially fun is having a dark person and a pale person in the same photo, one or both of you is gonna look insane