Tag: FACEDETECTION

Facebook is one of the largest repositories of user-generated photos online. Many, it seems, dump every family snapshot and vacation photo into the site, but then must deal with the unpleasantness of tagging people who appear in the images. Sure, it's not a particularly difficult task, but drawing a box around each person, in each photo, and then typing their name can get pretty tedious. [Ed. ...

Have you ever wondered what you would look like if you lost 50 pounds? How about with a different hairstyle? We recently sat down with Dr. Parham Aarabi, president of face visualization company Modiface, who showed us some of the more interesting uses of his company's high-tech algorithms. Modiface grew out of face recognition technology developed at the University of Toronto. The technology ...

Panasonic announced a new digital still camera that will likely have you wishing your birthday was coming up soon. The FX500 has a high definition movie mode, a 10.1 megapixel image sensor, a 25-milimeter wide angle lens and 5x optical zoom, plus a touchscreen LCD -- a feature that has us rubbing our hands together and getting our index fingers ready for some serious touching. The HD movie mode ...