If your photo organising software can do face recognition, can the internet search faces? I mean, can you show it a face, and get it to find other examples of the same face?
Yes, you can. Sort of. Introducing Pictriev.com, a face search engine.
I uploaded a picture of myself to search. I chose my facebook profile picture. Straight away it was impressive. As a first step it identifies the gender and approximate age of the face. It says I am male (with 93% certainty) and I am approximately 30.
Great start Pictriev, well done. Unfortunately that's as far as it gets for now. Look at the other examples of my face it was able to find on t'internet;
Ok, so it's not so good at it's core purpose of finding what you're looking for on the web. Sort of like search engines in the 90's. But just how good is that age-guessing feature? I tried uploading a photo of myself from a couple of years ago to see if it could tell I was younger. And the result? 45.
More work to be done here. And it's no surprise that Google is one of the companies doing this work.
Google has refused to rule out extending controversial facial recognition technology, despite being hit by a storm of complaints over privacy.
The internet search giant already offers one facial recognition feature through its Picasa photo software, which scans your pictures and suggests matches with other pictures that may include the same people.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt would not rule out a further roll-out, saying: 'It is important that we continue to innovate.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1280145/Google-facial-recognition-debate-goggles-privacy-controversy.html#ixzz1IaLWg8Tp
Whether you think this is a step too far or an exciting innovation, you can be sure that if Google does it, they will do it well. Before you know it, we will all wonder what we did before it. "Remember when you could only use words to search? How did we all cope??"
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