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It's not as if this idea was a particularly clever one -- many photo applications allow users to tag photos, tagging photos is hard work, and so it would be nic
by apu 18y ago
It's not as if this idea was a particularly clever one -- many photo applications allow users to tag photos, tagging photos is hard work, and so it would be nice to have automatic tagging where the tags carry over from image to image.
The hard part is the computer vision aspect of it. This is an incredibly difficult problem, one into which millions of dollars were pumped in the 1990s, with not a huge amount of success. It'll be interesting to see how well it works on Picasa.
- anamax 18y ago(1) Picasa data is almost a best case for face recognition. The "population" for a given user is fairly small (is a new person or one of the 1-20 people who you always take pictures of) and the images tend to be good (well lit, lots of pixels, face-on, complete). (2) Errors will be amusing. Folks have been saying how Aunt Emma looks like cousin Fred for years, now we have a computer confusing them.
- apu 18y agoWhy is Picasa data any better than Facebook (which can leverage the incredible knowledge of your social network as well as user-tags to make highly educated guesses)? or webshots (which is almost exclusively face photos)? or even flickr? or any of the other dozens of photo sites?