arstechnica.com— Google has quietly add some basic facial recognition technology to its image search. Filtering out search queries to only show faces is just the first step, though.
May 30, 2007View in Crawl 4
What about OCR for all the license plates that are parked in driveways?Type in a plate number and it'll show you the car in the driveway of the owner's house..or worse yet, wherever it was when the street pictures were taken.
@ubuwalker31Yes, but some of us had the common sense not to click his link when he explicitly says "when you search for porn...."seriously, do you need a NSFW tag when porn is mentioned?
Can you imagine how amazing and frightening the future power of Google will be?Upload a picture of any person and bam! ; you have every picture on the net of them. Instead of searching based on words, you will be able to search based on pictures.
tonarosMay 31, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/images/scary_plant.preview.jpg">http://www.hermann-uwe.de/files/images/scary_plant.preview.jpg</a>I don't think anyone would label this as a face.
jmbarberaMay 31, 2007
What about OCR for all the license plates that are parked in driveways?Type in a plate number and it'll show you the car in the driveway of the owner's house..or worse yet, wherever it was when the street pictures were taken.
gawtmilkMay 31, 2007
Homer Simpson doesn't have a real face, he's a cartoon. Seems to me that the algorithm is working.
uptownMay 31, 2007
...or use user-votes to match user's faces w/ those of celebs at <a class="user" href="http://www.celebralike.com">http://www.celebralike.com</a>
ahawksMay 31, 2007
@ubuwalker31Yes, but some of us had the common sense not to click his link when he explicitly says "when you search for porn...."seriously, do you need a NSFW tag when porn is mentioned?
opusmortisMay 31, 2007
Can you imagine how amazing and frightening the future power of Google will be?Upload a picture of any person and bam! ; you have every picture on the net of them. Instead of searching based on words, you will be able to search based on pictures.
loucypherJun 2, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9613">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9613</a>/shameless-plug