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

I think they were warned

[plover]

I looked at all the shiny stuff on their site, and then figured "OK, I'll sign up and try it." But the signup page said "IE 6 only". OK, fine, I'll hold my nose and fire up IE. Only after that do I discover the alpha phase is by "email invite only".

It's almost as if they were exactly prepared for a slashdotting! Very clever people, indeed.

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!

Re:Facebook, anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats because its not the same thing. Facebook cannot be trained to recognize faces. You have to tag it for every picture manually. The only doofus is you.

The two are not really alike.