Face recognition: next step
February 9th, 2006
Rya is a company providing face recognition to automatically tag photos…I have no clue if it works or not (I try to enroll into the beta!), but if it’s really works, this would have huge impacts on on-line photo sharing, including mobile, especially because it’s so complex to tag picture through a mobile. So with location, time stamp, and face recognitation taking a picture taking a picture from a mobile could provides a lot of meta informations (let’s call them tags! 
) on a picture…
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1. Eric Janszen | February 10th, 2006 at 12:42 am
Spent a lot of time looking at face recognition a while back. All claim near 100% accuracy with hardly any false positives. BS. And that’s just telling one face from another based on relative location of eyes, nose, mouth, etc. at a fixed distance, consitent lighting, etc. Else can’t tell a popsicle from a screwdriver, or a train a mile away from a tootsie roll a foot away. Check out the progress in machine vision over the past 20 years…. even slower than continuous voice recognition, still firmly stuck in 1995 (all still use various flavors of acoustic approximation + statistical analysis of phonemes based on dialect-specific language models).
I can see auto-tagging working on the wireless GPS Camera of the Future…
SearchTagDataItem21243523567; User: Fred Flintstone; Date: 2/8/06; Time: 12:23:09 AM EST; Location: Wall Street/Broadway Avenue, NYC; Description: Fat+man+ass+crack; User Comment: “Assholes! That’s my 3 year old son Freddy eating a cheeseburger!”
Prediction: The best we can hope for from this kind of AutoTagging is 2,435,875,345 matches on image search of the term “asshole”.
Anyone think this is serious technology? There’s a sucker born every minute.
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