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.
posted by Social Sweetener at
1:23 AM
1 Comments:
Hi,
Well, I don't think faces will be recognized in all the photos in the world and not even in all photos available online: there's simply too much processing required to detect and recognize faces in all these photos and someone's gotta pay for all this cpu. But users will probably contribute photos and be willing to pay for the processing if this helps them out: some users want to find their way around thousands of untagged photos, or to find people that they are looking for (like recognizing ancestors in old scanned family photos; of finding photos of yourself that other people have taken). This technology actually works. You can see this at MyHeritage (disclaimer: I work for these guys). They have a demo you can try for yourself and some interesting samples from same demo if you don't have time to upload your own photos. I hope you'll be impressed with this technology and the promise it holds for consumer photo sharing, tagging and searching.
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