There has always been something missing with Facebook’s tagging feature…. it’s the facial recognition!
I cam upon this website face.com, a technology company operating the leading face recognition platform. Could this be the next company Facebook would acquire? Imagine all the photos on Facebook would automatically be tagged with your friends!
“We focus on enabling awesome social experience for people in images, and our platform is built to support web and mobile services, directly off the cloud. Through our apps and API services, we scan billions of photos monthly, and to date helped tag hundreds of millions of faces. Our technology helps people to tag their own photos quickly and easily, and discover photos of themselves and their friends that they never knew existed. We also offer a platform for developers and publishers to automatically detect and recognize faces in photos; this is a robust, free, and privacy-aware REST API to to allow third-party developers offering instant integration to social networks, photo sharing sites, search engines, and more. Developers can create their own original apps that leverage our facial recognition technology, algorithms, and access to tagged faces. ” – face.com
