The face recognition and tagging feature on the most recent version of Picasa, Google’s free photo editing app, is astonishing.
The application which has been available since September 2009 scans all the photos on your PC and asks for the name of each of the different people it finds. It then filters and tags each photo where it finds that person. Where it’s unsure it asks for confirmation.
It could almost be magic.
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yes; this one is amazing indeed
These are brilliant, I heard that they, along with Facebook, were trying to perfect this last year.
This joins up with Google’s equally brilliant voice recognition phone service – a 118 247 for the US that will recognise that you want the number for a pizza house in San Jose.
The best (and most scary) part of these are that they have databases larger than the FBI’s to work from and images at lots of different angles. So the algorithms can become seriously brilliant and ridiculously accurate. And, for the photo ones at lease, all the labeling work is done by its users, keeping costs down.
You’ve got to wonder how this will work when it’s applied to video and CCTV.
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I use both Picassa and Flickr for sharing photos over the internet but i use Flickr more often than Picassa.~;’