Amateur Facial Recognition Creeps Closer
The ability for everyday users of search engines to query particular faces is creeping closer. Google OS reports that Google has (kind of quietly) added a feature to their Image Search service to restrict the results to people’s faces. For example, a basic search for “Zimmer” in Image Search provides varied results, ranging from the exotic car, pictures of rooms (sprechen zie Deutsch?), and some photos of people. But searching with the special characters “&imgtype=face” appended to the query results in nothing but faces (mine included).
It seems Google is starting to take advantage of their acquisition of the facial recognition company Neven Vision a while back. First step to distinguish a face from a non-face. Next step perhaps to distinguish between faces? Then what?
[...] use of their own facial recognition technology to automatically scan the Street View image database to identify and blur all faces, thereby protecting privacy and [...]
[...] almost bought Riya back in 2006, but acquired Neven Vision instead, and soon integrated basic facial recognition into its image search results, and, later, into Picasa and [...]
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