Facebook reduces effort, introduces face detection for tagging people

Updated on 02-Jul-2010

Facebook has decided to make its half a billion members happy, or at least those who regularly upload photos of people (friends), by providing a much awaited online face detection feature, which automatically selects human faces, and makes them ready for tagging! Celebrations are in order…

A superficial look at acquaintances…

We’re now waiting for face recognition algorithms to be coupled with the detection process, to remove all tag-typing effort. What else is technology meant for?

 

Image source: Victore Navone
 

Abhinav Lal

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