Comments on: The Camera App that Identifies your Subjects

By: Harry Lewis

Harry Lewis — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:29:00 +0000

Perry — and did she roll her eyes skyward and say, “Thank you, Google!”? How helpful do we want our computers to be? She did click OK apparently …

By: Perry Newton

Perry Newton — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:21:08 +0000

What amazed me the other day when I was helping a library patron send an image attachment in her email was that she was prompted for a Picasa update, clicked ok, and it began to categorize every picture in her computer based upon face recognition and created file folders for each she ‘tagged’ with a name and placed all the pictures containing that person into that folder – I was stunned.

By: Harry Lewis

Harry Lewis — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:13:36 +0000

A student in my course notes that some people have a very specific cognitive impairment that makes it impossible for them to recognize faces, even of people they know well. For them it would be a boon! And while Zak is correct that face recognition certainly isn’t yet up to picking an entirely new face out from billions of possibilities, for apps like recognizing your friends (or getting the names of the students in your class right!) the technology must be almost there.

By: Jeff Collier

Jeff Collier — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:38:22 +0000

I’d buy that. But I want the glasses with the heads up display…

By: William Gasarch

William Gasarch — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:48:27 +0000

Reminds me of Caller-ID: People used to be surprised when I answered
”Hello INSERT-THEIR-NAME” but now its standard.

By: Zak Stone

Zak Stone — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:49:00 +0000

These features sound great until you try them — I remain unconvinced that face recognition in unconstrained photos is anywhere close to being “a solved problem”.