Google Face Recognition

I wonder if they haven’t publicized this because they don’t want even more people thinking of them as big-brother-ish…

When you add &imgtype=face to the picture search string [using Google image search], only photos with faces are showing up. This feature has not been officially announced yet and I have no idea how reliable it works.

For example:
Regular image search for “Ventura” - Same search with “&imgtype=face” on the end of the URL

This entry was written by JB, posted on May 31, 2007 at 7:37 am, filed under Blog Posts and tagged .

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3 Comments

  1. nstryker
    Posted May 31, 2007 at 9:20 am | Permalink

    wow that’s scary…assuming it doesn’t use metadata.

  2. nstryker
    Posted May 31, 2007 at 9:24 am | Permalink

    i wonder how long it’ll be until someone meshes this tool with street view and business search to see who’s walking into which stores.

  3. Dan
    Posted June 3, 2007 at 12:30 am | Permalink

    From what I see it’s not exactly facial recognition as we know it to be. It looks like it just looks for something in the image that could represent a face. I don’t see it searching images of a certain person based off facial characteristics. Like imagetype=face&bignose. It’s cool either way and they probably haven’t publicized it because they want to do more with it.

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