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Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition

Posted by timothy on from the face-in-the-crowd dept.

eldavojohn writes "If you use Picasa (Google's photo sharing site), they have upgraded to 3.0 and are purportedly offering facial recognition. That's right, why tag photos of your friends when the software will group similar faces together for you? There's a new list of features including repairing old photographs by touching them up and even writing on your images. As expected, not everyone is 'ok' with Google automatically recognizing you in pictures."

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  1. Re:picasas? by MrCoke · · Score: 5, Funny

    He downloaded it twice.

  2. Ah good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It can sort my porn.

  3. heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    checkout the error message it throws on a goatse image :P

  4. It recognizes *faces* by GameboyRMH · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...but you can still sort by actor.

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    1. Re:It recognizes *faces* by jbeaupre · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...but you can still sort by actor.

      but not actress?

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  5. Google Earth integration. by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm waiting for Google Earth integration, where it matches your face with images on street view and finds you on planet earth.

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  6. Can't Wait .... by Luthair · · Score: 5, Funny

    to find out if you tag someone mooning the camera, if the facial recognition will eventually 'recognize' a friends face.

  7. Re:picasas? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    From the internets.

  8. Faceblur Fail by skwang · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm not that worried. There are still some kinks to be worked out.

  9. Re:Facial recognition by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    There are faces in porn?!

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  10. Why facial recognition? by dontmakemethink · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had no idea you could identify a male pornstar from their facials. What an odd feature to include in a public photo app...

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    1. Re:Why facial recognition? by rpp3po · · Score: 2, Funny

      I had no idea you could identify a male pornstar from their facials. What an odd feature to include in a public photo app...

      They probably fingerprint the angle, muzzle velocity, plane of rotation, and average amount per second after launch (time data from EXIF fields) of the male's seed.

      To extract these parameters Google's patented algorithm needs on average only 2.6 pictures out of a sequence, which is excellent. The facial splash additionally contains information about the seed's viscosity which can be added to the fingerprint, to increase uniqueness of the data set in the case of overlapping results.

  11. Re:God I hope this works... by woobieman29 · · Score: 5, Funny
    So, if you are "R2.0" and your son is "R3.0", why do you need the one decimal point level of precision? Why not "R2" and R3"?

    PLEASE tell me that you aren't tracking the ejaculations that do not result in conception as the "dot releases"...

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  12. Re:You are Picasa Web Albums' bitch by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hi Bill, how is that retirement going?

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  13. Re:Families by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It seemed to be very confused by my wife and daughters. Even some of her relatives showed up.

    Are you from West Virginia?