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Face recognition in the wild

  • 12-04-2010 09:34AM
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    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,856 ✭✭✭✭


    This informs http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055875714 for how all the lemmings sign up for this.

    Anaface offers a service where you can rate the symmetry of your face (a key factor in deciding how attractive you are). After getting your rating, you are them invited to share it on a variety of the usual network / social media types sites of which it prompts more than 40.

    Then there is this piece by Karlin Lillington about Google’s lead privacy engineer and European privacy liaison

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2010/0409/1224267969122.html
    New technological developments offer constant debate for the company over the balance between cool services, security, and privacy. One looming challenge is the ability to search with pictures, using facial recognition. Someone could take a picture of a person with a phone’s camera, then do a facial search to find out who they are.

    For now, Google has not enabled this type of search and will “have a conversation about that” as the technology develops. Yet Google recognises many people will want to blend searches with location-based services and other technological possibilities. “It’s the little brother versus Big Brother scenario. This is coming and we have to think about it.”

    So, soon, the CIA (insert spy agency / stalker of choice) will be able to take you photo on the street, link it with Anaface* and use if to access your Facebook and from there, see everything there is to see about you or you can walk into a shop and hte shop will know what products to target you with, based on your face.

    the only thing lacking is that anaface gets you to do it manually. I imagine most airport systems can do it automatically.


    * They can licence your information to others.


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