It’s one step closer to facial recognition. Meaning someday Facebook will just find the embarrassing photos of you on it’s own from the collective albums its membership.
With this new feature, tagging is faster since you don’t need to select a face. It’s already selected for you, just like those rectangles you see around your friends’ faces when you take a photo with a modern digital camera. All that’s left for you to do is type a name and hit enter. Cool, huh?
According to the Facebook Blog there is more to come…
The tagging feature is just the start of improvements we’re trying out. Stay tuned for future posts about other work on browsing, uploading and tagging.
As a photographer it would be pretty darn cool if Facebook could find all of the “Bonus” people in my photos and identify them so I could spread the word about Mark Lutz Photography but until then this is a pretty cool piece of tech to mess with. That is if everyone doesn’t get sick of FB and leave before they implement it.
via|facebook blog
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1 Comment at "Facebook Now Recognizes Faces"
Well… iPhoto can detect faces and assign them to names (almost automagically) so, I dont think it will be long before FaceBook will.
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