Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition

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."

Re:picasas?

[MrCoke]

He downloaded it twice.

Ah good

[Anonymous Coward]

It can sort my porn.

heh

[Anonymous Coward]

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

It recognizes *faces*

[GameboyRMH]

...but you can still sort by actor.

Google Earth integration.

[dotancohen]

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

Can't Wait ....

[Luthair]

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

Re:It recognizes *faces*

[jbeaupre]

...but you can still sort by actor.

but not actress?

Re:picasas?

[Anonymous Coward]

From the internets.

Faceblur Fail

[skwang]

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

Re:Facial recognition

[MyLongNickName]

There are faces in porn?!

Why facial recognition?

[dontmakemethink]

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

Re:God I hope this works...

[woobieman29]

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"...

Re:Why facial recognition?

[rpp3po]

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.

Re:You are Picasa Web Albums' bitch

[xtracto]

Hi Bill, how is that retirement going?

Re:Families

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Are you from West Virginia?