Picasa debuts new facial recognition

Posted by Mike on Sep 3rd, 2008

Almost immediately after I decide to give Flickr another try-out, Picasa goes and announces a revamp of their own site.

I decided to give their facial recognition a try.  After visiting my picasa homepage, I clicked on the link suggesting that I try to identify my photos.  After a few minutes, I was redirected to a page that listed all the “heads” from all my albums and attempted to group them together.  For the most part, it did alright.  There were a few boys/girls mixed as one picasa-person, it thought my mom and sister were the same, and it created about 30 different version of me, each with a few headshots.

All-in-all, I’m pretty impressed.  I still need to go through and name everyone.  Which leads to the inevitable question: should I let Google know what I look like and who I associate with?

  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • StumbleUpon
  • Google Reader
  • Reddit
  • Share/Bookmark

Leave a Comment

Please note: Comment moderation is enabled and may delay your comment. There is no need to resubmit your comment.