Facebook has added a new facial recognition feature, as the social network looks for new ways to streamline its photo tagging process. The facial recognition feature, added last week, will identifiy that a face is present in an uploaded photo, asking the user “Whose face is this?” According to Facebook, the feature is in limited […]
Facebook has added a new facial recognition feature, as the social network looks for new ways to streamline its photo tagging process. The facial recognition feature, added last week, will identifiy that a face is present in an uploaded photo, asking the user “Whose face is this?”
According to Facebook, the feature is in limited testing, so you may not see it yet, but this and more will be coming for all soon. The software does not go so far as automatically tagging a recognized face, but this could be a potential feature in the future. This in turn could spark privacy concerns.
05/07/2010
In a blog post, Facebook’s new product manager for photos Sam Odio said that uploading photos is massively popular and in need of some streamlining, likely to the benefit of Facebook’s servers.
According to Facebook, more than 100 million photos are uploaded daily -with 99% of the more than 400 million users having uploaded at least one photo.
Odio was the founder of Divvyshot, the company behind the facial recognition technology that was acquired by Facebook two months ago.
