Archive for the 'Riya' Category
Gmail Pictures Used For Face Recognition?
Monday, August 14th, 2006The Google Operating System blog reports that when uploading pictures for your contacts, Gmail will ask you to crop the picture, to separate the face of the person. The result? Google has a database of multiple images for a lot of people, along with their names, e-mail addresses, street addresses, phone numbers, and whatever else […]
Riya Moves Ahead with Web Image Search
Friday, June 16th, 2006A few months ago I blogged about Riya, a photo sharing and search site that lets you tag and search images based on facial recognition technology. Users have uploaded over 7 million personal photos to Riya’s servers and tagged and labeled the subject’s faces to be searchable via Riya’s facial recognition technology.
Now Riya is moving […]
Riya: Facial recognition for the masses
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006My earlier musings on Web 2.0’s focus on the collection of (personal) metadata and the potential for the commercial aggregation of images of my likeness come into renewed focus with the launch of Riya (needs IE6 for PC; Firefox for Mac). Riya is a photo sharing and search site that lets you tag and search […]




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