Google’s Photo Face Recognition
[From Google’s Photo Face Recognition is Wow Marketing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com]
Google has introduced facial recognition software in its photo sharing site. With Picassa web albums, users can now tag photos by name. The software then looks at other pictures in your albums and finds matches using facial recognition software. Judging from the early feedback, it works pretty good. Here is some more info on the feature. The software was acquired from Neven Vision. Here is an explanation of the process:
As I was dutifully uploading my summer vacation photos last night, the Picasa site alerted me to this new feature, which was introduced Tuesday and lost in the noise about Google’s Chrome browser. I clicked a button that set some Google server farm looking closely at my stored photos (mainly of my two constantly preening daughters).
Just a few minutes later, it presented a cluster of photos of what the software assumed were of the same person. Indeed, they were all of my six-year-old, Daphne. I typed in her name. Then it presented another batch it thought were of Daphne. I could click to confirm. I could also uncheck some photos that were not her. It similarly offered clusters of photos of my other daughter, Clare, as well as my wife and other people who I tend to photograph.
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