[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

[Mark]

On 31 May 2007, at 19:10, Aaron Finley wrote:

> Why? It's not "tracking" faces, it's simply an object recognition
> algorithm that can detect whether an image is of a face or not. Not a
> very hard thing to do.

Currently that is all it is. Next maybe it'll be advanced to start  
trying to skin colour, or the sex of the persons face from the features?

> Recognizing a face in a picture != (by a huge margin) recognizing  
> whose face it is.

I know that man, I was just saying... ;o)

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