Photo is the key component making social media so hot. You may have tried your best to tag all your friends and yourself in photos on Facebook, but you’ll always get a chance to miss some photos of you taken by your friends, colleagues and in those other 10 billion photos in Facebook. Face.com’s ‘Photo Finder’ will help you discover them all automatically.
Auto-Tagged by Photo Finder
Face.com announced its alpha version of Photo Finder on Facebook. It adopts a proprietary facial recognition technology to scans through those photos in your own, your friends’ and other public albums instantly, and it will prompt an Auto-Tag results for user’s confirmation. We will be free from tagging photos in future, how cool it is!
Search Photo of You
Face recognition also enables searches over billions of photos on the internet too. Polar Rose launches its facial search engine Polar Rose beta, and you can search any public figures, celebrities and even yourself. How does it do it? It recognizes the faces and suggests the names to those users’ installed their plug-in to confirm them or add new names. These scalable eye-ball checks are made feasible by the power of crowdsourcing.
Though it sparks privacy concerns, Face recognition will definitely be the major technology on social networking and photo-sharing sites like Facebook & Flickr. If you want to try it first, join Face.com’s Photo Finder alpha and share your experience here.
Extended Reading
- Face.com Brings Facial Recognition To Facebook Photos by TechCrunch
- Facial Recognition Comes to Facebook by ReadWriteWeb
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