Google doing face recognition in Image Search right now
More interesting developments in the world of image recognition search. This one is specific to Google and is something a Lifehacker reader has found.
When you add &imgtype=face to the picture search string, only photos with faces are showing up.
An example used is when doing Google Image Search for “Paris”, the majority of photos returned are of the city. When you add the suggested string above in a search for Paris, you get a bunch of Paris Hilton images. Now it’s obviously not perfected, but there is no doubt that this sting is working to differentiate between human faces and none-human things.
I’ve been holding Google suspect to implementing a facial recognition search ever since the acquired Neven Vision in August, and in the same month also registered GoogleImageTagger.com.
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This is pretty cool. I have thousands of photos, all in random folders, not named and not organised. I firmly believe that it’s not worth spending days going through them all, because within a few years there will be an automatic solution. Enter a few names for images, and it will start to learn what people look like, and tag all images.
I already use an automatic tagger for my MP3s. Drop 1,000 files in, and it will suggest the right track name and album information. Simple, quick and surprisingly accurate.
On a similar point, I had an AI professor at University tell me that he isn’t bothering to teach his young children languages, because he thinks that automatic translators will be so good by the time they start to travel that there’s little point.
May 30th, 2007 at 8:25 pm