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Facebook's facial recognition knows who your friends are
- xd 16y agoThink about it for a moment. 1, Facebook automagicly tagging you in pictures based on facial recognition. 2, Geotagging pictures becomes common place.
- jodrellblank 16y agoThink about it for a moment, Google maps / streetview combined with a timeline / version control system. See what happened anywhere, anytime, to anyone.
- makmanalp 16y agoPicasa did this ages ago.
- bryanh 16y agoBut, collectively, Picasa doesn't have omnipresent access to millions of photos of individuals...
- michaelchisari 16y agoSome things in social networking come off as creepy, others don't. Usually, the key difference is whether the user or the system leads in applying the feature. Using facial recognition to help me tag my friends in a photo is not particularly creepy. Automatically tagging my friends in a photo right when I upload it, definitely creepy. Take an example: I usually interact with Alice, Bob, and Charlie around the subject of Sports. I, as a user, will find it creepy if the system automatically creates a "Sports" group with Alice, Bob, and Charlie. However, it's a different circumstance if the system waits for me to create a "Sports" group, and then searches our history, and says "we suggest adding these users to your new group based on previous interaction". If you let the user lead the activity, and then aid them in the process, you sidestep a lot of the social creepiness of making decisions for them.
- artmageddon 16y agoI like the suggestion of letting the user decide on the activity. I found it a little unnerving the first time I came across it just after Halloween... it was as though some strange individual knocked on my door after weeks of stalking my friends, holding up pictures of them and asking, "Is this your friend Jane Doe? How about this one?" followed by 40 more pictures. Even just by saying, "We're trying out facial recognition, would you like a demo?" I would've felt more impressed rather than creeped out.
- wallflower 16y agoEven scarier - the search space for facial recognition is much, much smaller once one person in a group is identified. At a bar, a random group of people is not a random group of people once someone is identified. Instead of searching all of Washington, D.C., just search all their friends and their friends in the DC area.
- gcr 16y agoTime for http://cvdazzle.com/ http://cvdazzle.com/
- apu 16y agoAnyone know what face recognition system they are using? Is it from face.com?
- beagle3 16y agoseems to be.