Tag: FACIAL RECOGNITION

Updated after the break. Internet intrigue! A CNN story by Mark Milian reported that Google is working on a facial-recognition app that would be deployed in a manner similar to Google Goggles -- snap a picture of someone's face, and it leads back to their Google profile, more or less. We were all about to scream, "GOOGLE TO DESTROY LAST VESTIGES OF PRIVACY (AGAIN)" when suddenly we saw all ...

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. ...

If you blame your credit card for making it all too easy to unconsciously rack up piles of debt, just imagine the kinds of splurge purchases you'd make if you could pay with your face. FaceCash, the new mobile payment system from ThinkLink, is an app that allows users to store credit card and bank account information directly on their smartphones, enabling them to purchase groceries, clothes or ...

Share digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/31/abstract-cyber-warrior-makeup-may-hide-your-face-from-surveilla/'; Well, it appears the cyber punk movies of the early eighties ('Liquid Sky,' 'Jubilee,' even 'Blade Runner') got it right: in order to defend against our Big Brother overlords, we are going to need to stylistically paint our faces in bizarre and senseless ways. For his ...

Imagine if just by getting a driver's license, you were entering yourself into an unofficial, virtual lineup that police would scour for suspects. Well, if you live in North Carolina, that scenario is already reality. Created by the FBI, a current test program uses facial recognition technology to compare photos of suspects with the state's drivers' license database. According to USA Today, the ...

Based on its current balance sheets, Sony Ericsson, Sony's "mobile device" brand, is struggling to stay alive in a world full of iPhones and BlackBerrys. This, among other things, is going to mean going back to the technological drawing board. And if the company can make good on its most recent patent, it may just be on to something. "Generating music playlist based on facial expression," is ...

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 ...

Sometimes it seems like the worlds of science and marketing are in a constant struggle to present us with the future described in science fiction. Whether its flying cars, the OS from Minority Report, or robots that play "rock, paper, scissors," the old saw is true: you can't fight progress. And now it looks like Yahoo Japan has jumped into the fray, with a little help from Comel, a Japanese ...

It's something we never really appreciated when waltzing into class way back when, but the ability to show up at your leisure without having to "clock in" and "clock out" was awesome. If you agree, you'll probably want to shred that application for City of Ely Community College in the UK, which has become one of the first UK schools to trial a new facial recognition technology from Aurora. ...

Ladies: if you thought random dudes sending you marriage proposals laced with spelling mistakes and little-to-no grammar on MySpace was freaky, just wait until mugr.com takes off -- the creepy quotient promises to be off the scales. Mugr is essentially a "face-based" search engine, linked to its own social-networking site (and offered to others through an API), connects images of people's ...

Facial-recognition specialist OMRON has unveiled its latest catalyst in bringing about the impending marketing and focus-group apocalypse. It's a "smile detector" -- essentially a piece of software capable of objectively measuring the smiles of humans (and eventually humanoids, we presume), and attributing to them a percentage rating. Enjoying that television show/site/"adult film"? Pretty soon ...