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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. Families by Dan+East · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Considering that members of a family typically bear a very strong resemblance to one another (with identical twins being the extreme case), I would think this would be one of the tougher trials for a facial recognition algorithm.

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    1. Re:Families by pnutjam · · Score: 4, Interesting

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

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  2. Please bring out Mac support by asmitty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This was one of my favorite programs when I was on Windows, and I miss its use on my mac. I enjoy iPhoto, but Picasa just had so many features that I loved and used and find so much better than iPhoto. Things like watching folders to see when new pictures were added, moved, and deleted. Cmon google...