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View Full Version : Facial Recognition Coming to Windows Live Photo Gallery

Chris Gohlke
07-29-2008, 08:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2008/07/24/windows-live-photo-gallery-will-soon-recognize-faces-in-pictures.aspx' target='_blank'>http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/...n-pictures.aspx</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Imagine this. You connect a digital camera to your PC for transferring photos and the software is able to recognize family members and friends in the photos by their faces. Well that&rsquo;s something new coming in the new release of Windows Live Photo Gallery - it will include a special "Face Recognition" feature where the software will automatically recognize different faces in in your personal pictures and will also let you add those names as tags."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1217289400.usr10.jpg" border="1" /></p><p>Pretty sweet feature for automatically tagging your photos.&nbsp; From the privacy standpoint, I'm wondering if it will only tag people you have previously identified in your gallery or whether it will be able to tag people in the background who might have already been identified in other photos.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>
Jason Dunn
07-29-2008, 03:34 PM
It's really cool to see Microsoft continuing to move their Photo Gallery product ahead.

From the privacy standpoint, I'm wondering if it will only tag people you have previously identified in your gallery or whether it will be able to tag people in the background who might have already been identified in other photos.

You mean some sort of server-side pool of recognized people? Nah, I'm pretty sure this is all local, meaning you'd have to have identified them first in order for this to work. A server-side database of faces would be a bit nightmareish. :eek: