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- BostonVaulter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11well, IIRC they use facial recognition at the casino's. So that means that the technology is here, but us consumers can't afford it yet because we don't bleed money like the casino's.
This is some pretty exciting stuff, sending an image as a search query, that is awesome. - timbellomo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7have you used riya (riya.com)? it works pretty well once it's trained...
for those of you who don't know, Riya is an online facial/object recognition image tagging site. - BitSlash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ah, but it looks like Neven Vision holds some pretty interesting patents that would allow Google to expand Picasa and Google Video.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Any expansion in the features of Picasa is welcome, but please add a the ubiquitous but useful "delete after import" option from the digital camera import screen.
- econofast, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Perhaps you're thinking of retrievr?
http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
It's a bit rough, but fun to play with. - robweber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Jasonn
the technology is available. the japanese robot (Wakamaru) uses facial recognition to tell the difference between different people in it's environment. - KJay, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This has nothing to do with technology, the technology is just a digital camera and a computer...they've been around for years. This is about software, and it does exist, and is getting pretty viable.
- itanshi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2you know, if you could send an image as a search query
Can this aid in finding more copies say for finding unlawful distrobutions or people claiming the art or video is their own? They may be named differently...
Now i like this, thanks google. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm somebody who has up to now thought of Google as 'not evil'.
But I also live in allegedly the most CCTV-covered country in the world, the UK. It really doesn't take much to connect this announcement and that fact together, which kind of makes me rather uncomfortable. Yes, I know the police in the UK already have this capability (and in case you think they don't, they really do).
I also know Google has a habit of releasing APIs to their technology. So now we have the capability of anyone with access to any CCTV feed to get data about people who walk past the camera. For example, a store can identify you and then get access to lots of data about you (from Google's database, and their own) as soon as (and probably before) you set foot inside. A local authority to whom you have not paid a parking ticket (important in the UK as traffic wardens are the Nazi party reincarnated) can identify you from street CCTV and do all sorts of things (notify the police, refuse to issue you another parking ticket) etc. Hey, if you work for big company X, they can even track you on your day off (or worse, sick day off). You thought we had Big Brother already? And "1984"? You ain't seen nothin' yet... - factoryjoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Riya actually does quite well with face rec. The technology works best by contextually recognizing "situational factors" like shirt colors, background colors and lighting. It works surprisingly well if you spend some time training the engine and providing hi-res samples.
It fails at webwide search since the quality of web graphics are usually too low to be recognized consistently.
Munjal, CEO of Riya, commented on this purchase as well as how Riya works. - Avogadro65, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1A long time ago, I remember reading in Popular Science about an image-recognition search engine, where you could draw something, and it would find images based on your drawing.
Maybe they're doing something like this? - picodegallo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone know of any good articles/publications that describe the state of image recognition/visual sensing research today? How far it really is along? What kind of problems they are facing?
- freexe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Can you imagine what the AOL users search image logs would be like?
I'm not sure I want to see what an AOL user thinks a horse ***** a small child looks like. - ripcrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1maybe it has something to do with the picture passwords used in Johhny Mnemonic.
- willcode4beer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1sure, but think of the potential when it is working well.
Considering the lacking in meta data for images and video, this could become a great enhancement to google's image and video searches.
Also, imagine, posting an image with a photo and finding other pictures/videos with that person. - Antagonist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1They have it on the beta version i'm trying out.
- illegalamigo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It is indeed very scary...
A lot of people are excited about tagging pictures for Facebook or the idea that you could make albums based on people without having to type in the information but there are real threats to our privacy here that many people fail to see. - tappytibbins, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Outstanding overview of "How Google Works" is here:
http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1985413,00.asp - Jasonn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4The technology right now is simply not available to make this work. The error rates of determining a specific person out of just a photo (or something similar) would be ridicioulsy high. Although it is a really cool concept, I don't see the technology to mature enough for use for many, many years. Makes you wonder what Google is using this for...
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