Riya Eases Pain of Digital Image Management

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.

Comments

Not very useful.

[Seumas]

Most of my photos are upskirts of random strangers at the mall. This service is only useful if I'm going to be photographing the same shaved vaginas over and over again and, for that to happen, I'd have to be incredibly lucky. You try asking a hottie out when you have mirrors on your shoes and a camera with the "record" light on, aimed upward from knee-height.

Re:Not very useful.

[plover]

Just think if someone cataloged another picture like the ones you just mentioned and it comes back labeled "Mom".

Try explaining that email to her!

Actually, this could be really helpful!

[Anonymous Coward]

I can't remember all the times I've sobered up after a weekend bender, only to download the camera and ask myself "Jesus, whose **** is that???"

This will make it so much easier to find all the right people when I have to make that awkward call from the clinic.

Creepy

[Sen.NullProcPntr]

From TFA;

Castera also wonders if Riya might be useful for paternity tests.

"I submitted some photos of a little boy and others of his father -- who is my best friend -- and Riya found the resemblance," said Castera, a French industrial designer. "It's very touching."

Trusting some unknown face recognition software to do "paternity tests" is a little out there.
Isn't that how paternity was determined back in old days? ("'E's the spitting image of the Duke 'e is.")