OhGizmo! » Riya, Photo Sharing With Face Recognition
Riya is just what Flickr is missing. It’s a photo storing site, just like Flickr, but it incorporates face recognition technology. That way, tagging your pictures becomes much easier.
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Actually, two different technologies are at play here: face detection (automatically finding faces in photos) and face recognition (automatically recognizing who the faces belong to). You can also mark faces manually (to skip the face detection) but if a face cannot be detected automatically, it probably cannot be recognized automatically. Cool, isn’t it? Also check out http://www.myheritage.com, another company that applies face recognition to photos. They have a demo up on their site which really shows this in action.
In my previous post please fix ’skin’ to ’skip’. Sorry and thanks.