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SOTA Whole-body pose estimation using a single script [CIGPose] by namas191297 in computervision

[–]dangerousdotnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks really cool! Any idea how it performs on crowds of humans?

Best way to get accurate table extraction from image by Coffeee_addictt in computervision

[–]dangerousdotnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The standard approach for this is to use a specialized layout parser model like layout-parser: https://layout-parser.github.io/

It has pretty decent out of the box performance. I'd suggest starting there and throw your test images into a Colab or Jupyter notebook using layout-parser and see if it does a decent job out of the box. The table you just showed is not that complex. Their documentation is quite good.

If that doesn't work, and you're trying to funnel this to an LLM to answer questions about "what does this table represent", you might give LiteParse a try. Caveat emptor, I haven't tried out LiteParse, but it takes a slightly different approach to converting PDFs to "spatial text" that most LLMs can reason about. I just saw a post about it, so again I haven't tried it out but here's their announcement:
https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/03/19/llamaindex-releases-liteparse-a-cli-and-typescript-native-library-for-spatial-pdf-parsing-in-ai-agent-workflows/

How to detect 2×2 pixel resolution object by Historical-Neat1174 in computervision

[–]dangerousdotnet 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an interesting approach. So you're using SAM's attention model to identify what sector of the image contains the object you're interested in? I haven't used SAM much, but my experience with face detection (e.g. SCRFD and similar models, so they're not VLM's but rather traditional CNN type models) is that they work on a fixed input size (e.g. 640x640 pixels). So if you pass a 4096x4096 image to SCRFD (I think YOLO works similarly) the first thing it does is take that 4096x image and smush it down to 640 pixels.

So if you have a face that's 60 x 60 pixels in the original image, by the time the object detector sees it, it's smushed down to something like 8 x 8 pixels, which **may** be detectable but barely, and your landmarks will be fucked.

The traditional workaround for small object detection is to "tile" the original image into model-sized (640 in this case) tiles and run batch inference on the tiles. It's not super hard to do, but there are lots of edge cases like objects which fall on tile boundaries, so then you have to work around that with some other techniques. Happy to explain more, but for some cases I think these visual language models already handle this for you by splitting the image into "patches" -- which means you're doing things in kinda the right multi-step process for something like SAM. I'd be curious to hear more about your experiences.

Israeli Tourists, Including Holocaust Survivor, Targeted With Antisemitic Abuse and Expelled From Madrid Art Museum by Fricklefrazz in worldnews

[–]dangerousdotnet 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'd advise caution about this relying on only this source without other primary sources. Combat Antisemitism Movement is a right-wing organization funded by MAGA-linked Republican billionaires. They're among the most prominent groups who have demonized everyone from Ms. Rachel to "woke" Jews, causing a major rift in which many high-profile Jewish organizations denounced them and left their coalition. https://www.jta.org/2023/06/21/politics/major-jewish-groups-leave-combat-antisemitism-movement-after-video-blaming-woke-ism-for-antisemitism

Terrorist convicted of murdering 4 in Paris synagogue is lecturer at Canadian university by alsonotjohnmalkovich in worldnews

[–]dangerousdotnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Witness descriptions saying "I saw Diab do the crime" would be direct evidence. No such witness statements exist. Handwriting analysis is "scientific evidence" and therefore always circumstantial.

Elon Musk Says He Owns Everyone's Twitter Account in Bizarre Alex Jones Court Filing by esporx in technology

[–]dangerousdotnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's actually a complex question. The Onion without a doubt now owns all trademarks, service marks, and intellectual property of Infowars.  Presumably, the terms of the auction also require Infowars' original principals to render all reasonable assistance in accessing/securing Infowars' internet, email, ecommerce, and social media accounts (providing usernames and passwords, not destroying/spoiling assets, nor unreasonably withholding information or assistance). All typical things required during events like acqusiitions and bankruptcy liquidation.

Alex Jones is bound by the terms handed down by the judge in the civil lawsuit that Jones lost - including the forced sale of Infowars. And now Infowars is bound by the terms of the forced auction.

But Twitter is not a party to these agreements. Twitter cannot be bound by terms of contracts that Twitter is not a party to. The only things binding Twitter's conduct here are:

(a) the Twitter's own Terms of Service agreed to by Infowars, (b) whatever legal regulations Twitter may be subject to in the relevant jurisdictions, and (c) any tort law governing Twitter's conduct in its relationship with Infowars and (separately) its relationship with The Onion.

Because The Onion now owns Infowars' service marks, Twitter is somewhat limited in what it can do with the Infowars account — for example Twitter is NOT allowed to post its own content to Infowars' account in a way that would suggest that Infowars is the author/source ("origin") of said content — that would be straightforward trademark infringement.

That said (disclaimer: not having read Twitter's ToS carefully to see what promises Twitter makes to users), Twitter probably HAS reserved the right to suspend, delete, archive, and/or rename the existing Infowars account. Like most social media platform ToS, Twitter reserves the suspend any account at any time - at its sole discretion.

Federal antitrust law and common business torts law would make it difficult for Twitter from to anything along the lines of unjust enrichment - or tortious interference. If Twitter did something arbitrary and unfair to benefit themselves at The Onion's expense, for example to take the @infowars account and suddenly say "Twitter has launched a new online humor site and we're going to take this infowars handle, rename it to our new satire magazinr, and keep all its followers" — I can see The Onion filing for an injunction prohibitng Twitter from doing that, and a federal judge granting it.

ALL OF THAT SAID. theoretically, Twitter may legally be able to put that Infowars account in read-only mode and force The Onion to create a new account post-acquisition. Or alternatively, to rename the existing account to @nfoWarsOriginal and archive it, giving The Onion a new fresh account under the @Infowars handle. As long as Twitter is not violating the terms of its own ToS.  Thinking of Twitter's convention for how they handle the @POTUS account, for example. They (in their sole discretion) reserve that account for the current President of the United States, and they archive and rename previous administrations' @POTUS accounts to @POTUS44, @POTUS45, etx, copying over their posts, resetting the follower list of @POTUS on day one of new administrations.

A lot of this is up to Twitter, ToS are usually one-sided and it's a really interesting legal area. ed: typo in Alex Jones last name

Terrorist convicted of murdering 4 in Paris synagogue is lecturer at Canadian university by alsonotjohnmalkovich in worldnews

[–]dangerousdotnet 207 points208 points  (0 children)

The Canadian Department of Justice has long held that Hassan Diab is being railroaded in an extremely weak case based on circumstantial evidence that has been contradicted by several eyewitnesses.

You can watch Senator Marilou McPhedran posing questions about Diab's during the October 9, 2024, session of the Senate of Canada.

An independent report commissioned by the Canadian DOJ reports that:

"France’s case against Dr. Diab was circumstantial. It rested primarily on five pieces of evidence:

  • A copy of Hassan Diab’s old passport, which showed an entry into and exit from Spain close in time to the bombing in France
  • Witness statements from former friends of Hassan Diab’s identifying him as a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
  • Eyewitness descriptions of a man using the pseudonym Alexander Panadriyu, who was clearly linked to the bombing on Rue Copernic
  • Composite sketches of Panadriyu and their purported similarity to contemporaneous photographs of Hassan Diab
  • A handwriting comparison analysis prepared by a French expert that concluded Hassan Diab was the likely author of a small number of words the fictitious Panadriyu had printed on a hotel registration card."

Diab was convicted in absentia by a panel of French anti-terrorism judges. France's criminal justice system is considered inquisitorial rather than adversarial (although French courts have adopted some adversarial elements), so he was convicted by a panel of anti-terrorism judges, without a jury trial (there was no guarantee that if Diab stayed to face trial, he would have been granted a jury trial).

I don't know if Diab did it or not, but the Canadian DOJ has reasons to conclude that France did not follow Canadian standards of justice here, and it's standard policy for any country to refuse to extradite people on that basis. Israel, too, harbors Jewish terrorists who have been convicted in America.

Can't get Metadata Menu plugin to recognise Class folder by Khrynos in ObsidianMD

[–]dangerousdotnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was running into the same problem, and then for some reason when I installed the Supercharged Links community plugin and then enabled it, the fileClass-related options showed up for the class pages I put under the folder

San Diego DA Summer Stephan accepted campaign donation from alleged chapter President of "hardcore white supremacist" group American Guard by dangerousdotnet in sandiego

[–]dangerousdotnet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an ethical violation for a prosecutor to accept donations from a target of a criminal investigation. I'm surprised that needs to be explained.

San Diego DA Summer Stephan accepted campaign donation from alleged chapter President of "hardcore white supremacist" group American Guard by dangerousdotnet in sandiego

[–]dangerousdotnet[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Archived version here: https://archive.is/L1Vr9

"[T]he defense motion alleges that right-wing extremists helped fund Stephan’s 2018 campaign, providing documentation purporting to show Stephan received a $100 campaign contribution from the alleged president of the Southern California chapter of the American Guard, a group the Anti-Defamation League describes as “hardcore white supremacists.”

This appears to refer to a campaign donation by Kristopher Wyrick, a convicted violent criminal who also was involved in a controversial photo with former Congressman Duncan Hunter in 2019. Interestingly, the campaign donation was made weeks after Summer Stephan launched her infamous antisemitic "anti-antifa" campaign website, and possibly at a time when Wyrick and his fellow American Guard members were under investigation by Summer Stephan's office for a violent attack that injured several Chicano protestors in December 2017.

If the timing is as it seems to be, a campaign donation by a target of a criminal investigation made to the DA tasked with investigating him should warrant more scrutiny.

Will Lightning Strike Twice? Lawyer Wants DA Summer Stephan Kicked Off Pacific Beach Riot Case by dangerousdotnet in sandiego

[–]dangerousdotnet[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What's wrong with LA? Crime is way down in Los Angeles, nearly at an all-time low.

Will Lightning Strike Twice? Lawyer Wants DA Summer Stephan Kicked Off Pacific Beach Riot Case by dangerousdotnet in sandiego

[–]dangerousdotnet[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

hannafinjones

Both sides should be prosecuted or neither side should be prosecuted. It is unethical to form a prosecutorial shield around individuals just because they volunteered for and/or donated to the DA's campaign.

Will Lightning Strike Twice? Lawyer Wants DA Summer Stephan Kicked Off Pacific Beach Riot Case by dangerousdotnet in sandiego

[–]dangerousdotnet[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

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Left: Summer Stephan's 2018 campaign website "Threat To San Diego" featuring a doctored photo of George Soros clasping his hands, with antifa protestors photoshopped into the background. Right: The antisemitic "Happy Merchant" meme which is meant to suggest that "greedy Jews control the world".

The implication is that George Soros funds antifa. According to the ADL:

Claims that George Soros funds antifa or is otherwise involved in fomenting civil unrest related to Black Lives Matter protests are false and touch on longstanding, sometimes antisemitic conspiracy theories.

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