[geeks] Google Images Facial Recognition!

Aaron Finley aaronfinley at gmail.com
Thu May 31 13:10:04 CDT 2007


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>
> You don't even find it remotely worrying that google have started
> tracking faces? What if they refine it to pick out a persons face
> from Google images eh?
>
> --
> Mark Benson

Why? It's not "tracking" faces, it's simply an object recognition
algorithm that can detect whether an image is of a face or not. Not a
very hard thing to do. Recognizing a face in a picture != (by a huge
margin) recognizing whose face it is.

-- Aaron



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