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Google Acquires Facial Recognition Technology Company
- forgotusername 15y agoThis is the second such purchase since 2006, when they picked up Neven Vision. Then just as now, it gives me the creeps that any company of this size and technical capability would start hoovering up companies specializing in facial recognition. Planetary scale biometrics, anyone?
- jonknee 15y agoGoogle uses facial recognition to automatically blur out faces in Street View. I imagine they have some fun ideas concerning Android as well.
- shantanubala 15y agoStreet View is just face detection (ie figure out where the faces are), and that technology has been around for years (it's even in bundled with the open source OpenCV library). This company does face recognition, which is the identification of individual people based on an image -- it's a very complicated problem.
- sylvinus 15y agoAccording to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google this is the 100th acquisition by Google!
- apu 15y agoCongrats to the PittPatt people on HN (I know there are one or two here)!
- DjMojoRisin 15y agoGo CMU!
- jwuphysics 15y agoCongrats to PittPatt! I work for one of their competitors, also from CMU.
- zackattack 15y agoI've been tracking this company for a while. I wonder when they will acquire some Paul Ekman products.
- flat 15y agoimagine being able to search for faces in images and videos on the internet as easily as we can search for words in documents. it would be amusing to find oneself in various peripheral crow footage / holiday photos. it might also have an effect on the porn industry. any other consequences?