Monday, September 22, 2008
Facial recognition
Monday, September 22, 2008 
Blue Lava has announced that its iLovePhotos application has moved into a public beta. As photos are imported, iLovePhotos automatically detects individuals' faces.
The user can then add tags to the faces, and in future imports, people will be recognized and properly tagged automatically. After the process is complete, individuals can choose to filter their library to only show photos of specific people.
The software further uses the tags to pull information from Address Book, relying on this to set up automatic sharing feeds.
Alongside the public beta, a new Flash-based version is being introduced. Users can access the online software from any Mac or PC without downloading any software, and import their photos straight from Flickr.
**I haven't played with this at all and assume that the facial recognition is being done on the server side... but I suppose the technology is available to the Flash Player to whip something like that up -- after a whole lot of math and hard work. A Flash interface (which this probably is) for anything though is cool.
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Paul Mayne said...“It detects faces, but I don't see anything about it being able to auto tag faces. So no real person detection. (based on watching the demo)”
