Thursday, January 11, 2007

Malmö, Sweden - Close to 10 million new photos are uploaded to the web on a daily basis. Polar Rose indicates this number “is doubling every eight to ten months”.

Polar Rose is capitalizing on this opportunity with a system that makes photos searchable by analyzing their content and recognizing the people in them using facial recognition.

The Polar Rose plug-in for Firefox and Internet Explorer lets you discover who's in a picture on any public photo. The plug-in detects people in online photos and places the Polar Rose “signature” rose approximately where the pinhole of their shirt would be. A click on the rose will bring up a tooltip with relevant information, including name and other photos found of the same person. Users help train the Polar Rose engine by tagging names or verifying the data generated by Polar Rose or by your fellow users.

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Time to clean up your myspace pages, people!
1 Comments:
Anonymous Anonymous said...
now would be a good time to extricate yourselves from the net. keep in mind the personal and confidential data you allow onto the net, balanced with possible underhanded uses of that data by unscrupulous entities. remember, "they" can know everything you do, every action you take, every pic you view on the net. your anonymous account? ha! it is tied neatly together with your business email, your corporate photo, and that goofy pic you uploaded of yourself taking a huge bong rip. that, correlated with the pic of you speeding through a red light with a joint hanging out off your lips should be enough to put you where you belong. behind bars, you criminal.