A 3D Body from Eight Questions – No Photo, No GPU

(clad.you)

86 points | by arkadiuss 3 days ago ago

16 comments

  • sorenjan an hour ago ago

    I don't understand why the height and weight errors aren't 0 when they are known inputs? If I say how tall I am, why is the model estimating something else?

  • aaclark 6 hours ago ago

    ai;dr

    MLP trained on 8 questions achieves ~0.3cm height error, ~0.3kg weight error, and ~3-4cm for bust/waist/hips measurements.

    https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/5/1885 + some hacking => "we want to productize this"

    • endofreach 5 hours ago ago

      > ai;dr

      Haven't seen that one yet. I like it.

  • RobotToaster 4 hours ago ago

    Tangential, but does anyone else keep reading "MLP" as "my little pony".

  • dalmo3 2 hours ago ago

    AI or not, I liked this bit:

    > Averages lie about the tails, and a person who gets a 15 cm bust error doesn’t care that the mean is 4 cm.

    A variation of that sentence should be mandatory in every scientific paper.

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  • faangguyindia 4 hours ago ago

    It has that kind of feel as if it's made in codex.

  • woohin 2 hours ago ago

    Interesting idea. Using a questionnaire as input for an MLP makes sense but the real challenge is designing questions that capture useful signal instead of noise. If that part is done well, the approach has a lot of potential.

  • xenonite 5 hours ago ago

    Well sorry no, because already the torso to leg length ratio is covered by none of their question. (and yes, they list it as a limitation)

  • rgovostes 7 hours ago ago

    It takes more like 10 seconds. For a large range of height and weight inputs crossed with all option combinations, you could precompute ~10M measurements and return results basically instantly.

  • ggm 5 hours ago ago

    How big are the pockets and is it sex determined?

  • moralestapia 4 hours ago ago

    This is the best UI/UX article I've read this year. If the authors are around, I extend them my dearest congratulations ^^.

    • moralestapia 3 minutes ago ago

      Like ... who/why would downvote this?

      This feels manipulated.

  • vijgaurav 39 minutes ago ago

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  • 0x1da49 an hour ago ago

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  • zimpenfish 6 hours ago ago

    I'm guessing the writing is AI-assisted (there's no fluidity and it has some weirdly placed phrases) but I see they're in Poland and likely not English-language first?