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dagamer34
01/29/09

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Has anyone tested how much the quality of the photo effects face recognition results? I would think that the 2MP camera in the iPhone would produce crappy results compared to any 5MP+ point & shoot camera or a 10MP+ DSLR.
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Wilson Rothman
01/29/09

@dagamer34: I can tell you quality doesn't always matter, since not only does it recognize me in crappy scans and older JPEGs, but it can find me in blurry frames in the background of newer hi-rez photos. It's impressive on that score.
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.max
01/29/09

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The worst thing about iPhoto is that it has no dedicated mode for learning unknown faces. Unlike Picasa web site, which can list all unrecognized faces and let you tag them all at once.

In iPhoto you have to tag them manually and then go to Faces view to manually check each name if it has new suggestions. And there is no indication if it has such suggestions, you have to scroll it all the way down. Pretty frustrating. A simple icon showing availability of new suggestions would help ALOT.
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Wilson Rothman
01/29/09

@.max: It would be ANNOYING to see all unidentified faces all at once, when you have a library of 30,000, or even 5,000 photos. Apple wants you to tag your friends and family, and in this case, I think that's the smarter approach. It's not a flaw, it's a choice (I asked!).
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PhilipRubis
01/29/09

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I'm curious if anyone has tried the face recognition with children's photos over several years? I started shooting digital right before my son was born (he's almost 7 now). How does the face recognition do with the changes in his face over the past 7 years?
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Wilson Rothman
01/29/09

@PhilipRubis: In my testing, I can tell you how surprised I was when iPhoto did identify people in old scanned photos when they were many years younger. It wasn't always the case, but I saw it happen a few times. As far as my daughter, it identified her has a little newborn and as a 1-year-old, no problem.
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EBone
01/29/09

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Worked great for me on a library of if 5,000 photos. And it correctly identified my son from birth to his current age of 16 months.
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frigg
01/29/09

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Apple's acquisition of CTU in 2008 seems to be paying off. Once Chloe's non-compete clause allows her to work full time for Apple, look for iPhoto to rock!
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★☆★　Waka　★☆★
01/29/09

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Even thou it doesn't seem to perform perfectly well yet, it's a step in the right direction.

But I also think all babies look alike :(
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frigg
01/29/09

@★☆★　Waka　★☆★: Not all babies. Most people can tell the difference between a baby human and a baby hamster. Fish babies are also easy to distinguish from human babies (fish babies almost never wear sweaters).
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Curves
12/03/08

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They should use an ear scan. I read once that the human ear has many points of uniqueness and seems to be easy enough to access, unless youre VanGogh or something.
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Platypus Man
12/03/08

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Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't really see the point. Instead of using your fingerprint (which is attached to your body) or a username/password (which can be broken, but ideally, only you know it), you use an "enhanced" photograph of yourself. This is a photograph that you keep with you at all times, but should you leave it somewhere, it can be stolen, or lost at the very least. And then it's like you've lost the only key to your house, and there's probably no easy way to get it back or recreate it. And if it's stolen, then that person has it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it like a nigh-unbreakable password that you write on a sheet of paper that you keep with you at all times? It just doesn't seem to make sense.
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Sergeant JoKer
12/03/08

@Platypus Man: This isn't meant to be a photo to carry around with you to log into your computer, it showcases how somebody could, theoretically, get a photo of you, enhance it and use it to log on as you.
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Platypus Man
12/03/08

@Sergeant JoKer: So wait, is it supposed to demonstrate a massive security hole and make face recognition look stupid, or is that supposed to be a good thing?
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medopal
12/03/08

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who saw Madagascar 2?

in the beginning of the movie, the guy scans his face, hand, fingerprint, and finally his butt to log in.

Learn from cartoons how to make security :D
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Kaiser-Machead
12/03/08

@medopal: Yeah, Aliens vs. Monsters looks like it may be good....but Dreamworks is hit or miss.
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Monty
12/02/08

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I would be far more impressed if I could hold up an AK-47 and the computer would let me in. That fear element in computers is so under-rated.
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IN THE FACE!
12/02/08

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Where's the fun in that? Used to be you can to kill the guy and sever whatever part of him was being biometrically scanned.

Now you can just print out a photochopped image? Weak.

The action movie industry will not be pleased.
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IN THE FACE!
12/02/08

@bpapa9013: Typ-o-rama, excuse me...

can=had
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