Facebook Will Soon Be Able To ID You In Any Photo

sciencehabit writes Appear in a photo taken at a protest march, a gay bar, or an abortion clinic, and your friends might recognize you. But a machine probably won't — at least for now. Unless a computer has been tasked to look for you, has trained on dozens of photos of your face, and has high-quality images to examine, your anonymity is safe. Nor is it yet possible for a computer to scour the Internet and find you in random, uncaptioned photos. But within the walled garden of Facebook, which contains by far the largest collection of personal photographs in the world, the technology for doing all that is beginning to blossom.

Comments

Show me my doppelgangers!

[Alaska Jack]

I'd like to be able to ask Facebook:

"Out of all the hundreds of millions of Facebook users, which ones look the most like me?"

Wouldn't that be cool?

Re:What's the problem?

[theshowmecanuck]

That's what SHE said.