Comments on: Project Idea: Face detection in Gallery2 http://apocryph.org/2008/01/28/project_idea_face_detection_gallery2/ Notes to my future self Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:59:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: anelson http://apocryph.org/2008/01/28/project_idea_face_detection_gallery2/comment-page-1/#comment-116 anelson Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:44:32 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=542#comment-116 Yes, I figured that out too. I had the same thought RE training an Orwellian face recognition system. Picasa is further along on this, and actually does detect faces and match them to people. Scary. Yes, I figured that out too.

I had the same thought RE training an Orwellian face recognition system. Picasa is further along on this, and actually does detect faces and match them to people. Scary.

]]> By: Ieuan http://apocryph.org/2008/01/28/project_idea_face_detection_gallery2/comment-page-1/#comment-117 Ieuan Sat, 22 Nov 2008 19:57:30 +0000 http://apocryph.org/?p=542#comment-117 Facebook doesn't actually have any face detection system. You just select an area of the photo that contains a person and tag it as such. Scary though: if the CIA/NSA/MI5/KGB or whatever TLA you care to name were trying to train facial recognition software on surveillance cameras or create a database of their citizen's photos, what better place to look than Facebook: hundred of photos of people from different angles and with different expressions. Facebook doesn’t actually have any face detection system. You just select an area of the photo that contains a person and tag it as such.

Scary though: if the CIA/NSA/MI5/KGB or whatever TLA you care to name were trying to train facial recognition software on surveillance cameras or create a database of their citizen’s photos, what better place to look than Facebook: hundred of photos of people from different angles and with different expressions.

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