Suhit Gupta
11-01-2004, 09:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=554' target='_blank'>http://www.techjapan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=554</a><br /><br /></div><i>"FujiFilm has a new technology for searching pictures, which is called "Face Search." It works just like it sounds. The basic process consists of highlighting a face in o*ne picture, pressing "search," and the software will display other pictures that feature the same person. I'd like to see this in action myself before investing any money o*n a product because it features this technology. Scanning images for particular objects never has had great results, and reminds me too much of Blade Runner."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/pk1014.jpg" /><br /><br />I think it would be awesome if this took off. I do think the problem, from a machine learning point of view, is incredibly hard and it would probably produce decent results for a front facial view (like I have seen working in a lot of Computer Vision based systems) but may not work very well of a face from an arbitrary angle and with arbitrary lighting. I am still rooting for the technology though, it would make cataloging images so much easier.