[link] Riya - Photo search with face recognition

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intranet apps — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:33:57 GMT

There are few projects on codeproject.com with face detection functionality...

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Brad — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:31:13 GMT

forgot the most important point. Searching by name to bring up faces is interesting, but not nearly as interesting as being able to search by face, and bring up names.

If I already know someone's name, I don't want to wade through thousands of photos of people with the same name to maybe find one of the actual person I'm looking for. I can get thousands of false hits right now with any random text search engine.

What I want to be able to do, is take the photo of the person I don't know, and find a name, as well as additional photos of that same person if they are available.

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Brad — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:16:12 GMT

I was working on an extremely similar idea for this technology when I ran into the Riya site. No sense in continuing on my end. However, I'd like to see this up and running as soon as possible. So...let me say a bunch of stuff you've probably already thought of.

As someone just questioned above, you need a local client on pc's rather than putting the burden of all of this on your server. Let the local PC create 'faceprints' of people and store those in a local database. People can organize their photos and increase the accuracy of their databases as they go. They can also mark their photos public or private.

Next, you give people the opportunity to sychronize their database to the web. NOT the photos themselves, that's a waste of space, bandwidth and processing power. When they synchronize, your site will compare the faceprints to other uploaded faceprints and return any matches (shown on their interface simply as '5 matches for Unlce Joe' with degree of accuracy listed).

Now, they request a download of the actual pictures if they want them. The next time the person who uploaded the matching faceprints synchronizes their database with the web, any pictures that match and which are marked as public will be uploaded (temporarily)to the Riya server.

The pics will wait there (for, say, 30 days or less)for the requestor to sychronize again, at which time the uploaded pics will be downloaded to their client (and ultimately deleted off of the server) or then maybe the requestor can browse the matching pics and decide which ones to download.

If the pictures are marked as private, the requestor would have the opportunity to email the owner of the pics (through Riya, not directly) and ask for release of the pics.

Doing all this will take the burden off of your servers making your site run quicker, and at the same time this will preserve some of the anonymity of people on the web by putting a buffer (Riya) between the original owner of the pics and anyone else.

Asking for a location of either the user or the people in the pics? Bad idea, you need to get rid of that.

Searching by face is already a tremendous errosion of internet privacy, no need to make it worse. I'm looking forward to a mature product.

One more thing. Make your id tags compatible (somehow) with the major picture viewers,with the tags embedded in the pics, so that any ID tags that are created will go with the pictures and show up within other viewers. Another proprietary tagging format that goes away when you go outside of the program is not needed. Make it part of the picture itself, the way time/date/type of camera is now.

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Brad — Thu, 24 May 2007 18:52:54 GMT

Does Riya have a downloadable version of this to build a database of tagged photos on a pc rather than uploading everything?

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Freida Kahlo — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:11:51 GMT

i don't quite understand....spaghetti??

re: [link] Riya - Photo search with face recognition

Freida Kahlo — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:11:31 GMT

i don't quite understand....spaghetti??

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Freida Kahlo — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 17:11:21 GMT

i don't quite understand....spaghetti??

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Vikram Aggarwal — Wed, 02 Nov 2005 20:36:00 GMT

Hi Jon,
Thanks for this interesting post. At my company MyHeritage we've been developing face recognition technology and consumer applications for it for well over 2 years and are now in alpha. We address some of the privacy concerns by focusing on recognition of faces for genealogy purposes. That is, we tie faces in photos with family trees using meta-data and allow searches more freely when the faces belong to deceased people, at which points privacy concerns are usually lower. Moreover, if many people extrapolate their knowledge of their family, a large database is built which is splendid for family history purposes. We now have a demo on our site to showcase the technology behind this, where anyone can upload a photo and check which celebrities resemble the person(s) in the photo the most. This is great fun because if you were always told "you look like x" where x is hopefully brad pitt and not stephen hawking, this demo will give you proof. You can try the demo on http://www.myheritage.com and stay tuned as MyHeritage rolls into beta soon.

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Munjal Shah — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:01:00 GMT

Thanks Jon. That's one of the reasons we use email, it avoids some of the identity issues. Are you signed up for the alpha? If not email Tara at alpha at riya.com and she