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Riya Eases Pain of Digital Image Management

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the everyone-needs-a-gimick dept.

Vitaly Friedman writes to tell us Wired is covering a new service that hopes to alleviate some of the woes of digital picture management using face-recognition technology. Riya, requires a bit of upfront training but thereafter it is able to identify and tag individuals in your pictures along with text recognition for street signs and the like. The service also plans to offer the ability to make your online photo albums public, private, or viewable by invitation.

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  1. Subscription requires IE6. by Quebec · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There should be a law against sites which require IE6.
    I knew it was a Win32 application, I was ready to try it with CEDEGA, but to register you need Internet Explorer 6. I really don't like this kind of ... thing.