While recently using Google’s photo program, Picasa, I noticed it was putting together a collection of faces. Apparently, it runs a background process looking for faces in all the image files it can find on the computer. You can look at these faces and put names on them. Here’s the neat part: put a name to a face and it’ll aggregate a bunch of faces it thinks are the same person which you can then confirm, and it uses that to aggregate even more faces it thinks are the same person. In a couple minutes, I had 300+ Izzy faces, 100 or so Becky faces, etc. It was even able to identify Stephen’s face with and without his beard! Click a face and it’ll display the photo it’s from. Any faces it presents that you don’t want to keep track of, you can tell it to disregard; such as cartoon faces, faces of presidents, etc. It has located a bunch of pictures I didn’t even know I had, since it doesn’t limit itself to just your regular image directories. Anyway, I thought this was pretty cool and worth mentioning in case people didn’t know about this feature.
Picasa Faces
January 15, 2011
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John
While recently using Google’s photo program, Picasa, I noticed it was putting together a collection of faces. Apparently, it runs a background process looking for faces in all the image files it can find on the computer. You can look at these faces and put names on them. Here’s the neat part: put a name to a face and it’ll aggregate a bunch of faces it thinks are the same person which you can then confirm, and it uses that to aggregate even more faces it thinks are the same person. In a couple minutes, I had 300+ Izzy faces, 100 or so Becky faces, etc. It was even able to identify Stephen’s face with and without his beard! Click a face and it’ll display the photo it’s from. Any faces it presents that you don’t want to keep track of, you can tell it to disregard; such as cartoon faces, faces of presidents, etc. It has located a bunch of pictures I didn’t even know I had, since it doesn’t limit itself to just your regular image directories. Anyway, I thought this was pretty cool and worth mentioning in case people didn’t know about this feature.