HOLY! Riya searches your photos and recognizes who is in it
If you are like me, you have a ton of unnamed, undescribed, photos from many many years.
There seems to be alot of hype around a technology that might just help us recognize all the faces in those pics semi-automatically. Its called Riya.
Riya states its goal as enabling us to "find every digital photo in the world."
Riya uses face recognition and search technologies to
1) grab all your photos from ur computer or online sources like flickr
2) allow you to identify people in ur photos
3) identify those people in all your other photos (and in everyone else's photos for that matter).
So if I am reading correctly,
1) every photo in the world will be shared and
2) the software will be able to recognize all people and objects in the photos
3) anyone in your network will be able to search for anything or anyone in the whole network's photos
HOLY CRAP!! potentially one of the niftiest things I've ever heard of.
Right now, its only in alpha testing. And only like 10 people have seen it work outside the company. So the jury is out on how well it works still.
What if this can now help you identify those random people in the background of your photos!! What if you find that someone you just met is randomly in one of your childhood pictures! The possible scenarios could be freaky!! Could you upload your yearbook photos and names and find where all your classmates have gone? What about incriminating evidence??? hmmm there better be a bachelor party tag.
There seems to be alot of hype around a technology that might just help us recognize all the faces in those pics semi-automatically. Its called Riya.
Riya states its goal as enabling us to "find every digital photo in the world."
Riya uses face recognition and search technologies to
1) grab all your photos from ur computer or online sources like flickr
2) allow you to identify people in ur photos
3) identify those people in all your other photos (and in everyone else's photos for that matter).
So if I am reading correctly,
1) every photo in the world will be shared and
2) the software will be able to recognize all people and objects in the photos
3) anyone in your network will be able to search for anything or anyone in the whole network's photos
HOLY CRAP!! potentially one of the niftiest things I've ever heard of.
Right now, its only in alpha testing. And only like 10 people have seen it work outside the company. So the jury is out on how well it works still.
What if this can now help you identify those random people in the background of your photos!! What if you find that someone you just met is randomly in one of your childhood pictures! The possible scenarios could be freaky!! Could you upload your yearbook photos and names and find where all your classmates have gone? What about incriminating evidence??? hmmm there better be a bachelor party tag.
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