Facial Recognition

Manchester Airport is testing facial-recognition technology as part of the UK £1.2bn e-Borders scheme to tighten controls. The facial-recognition system, provided by Fujitsu Services in partnership with Vision-Box, works by scanning passengers’ faces and uses automatic gates in an attempt to both...  

Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces by Stephen Shankland reports Google's adding facial recognition technology to Picasa. Picasa users will be able to label their photos with names. Google will then start to automatically suggest other photos that look similar to the ones you...  

Google announced plans to add facial recognition technology to its online photo management tool, Picasa when the new version of the app launches at 12 PM PDT today. The new technology comes from Neven software, a company that Google acquired back in 2006. Neven cross-references faces with those...  

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google's Picasa Adding Facial Recognition Revamped Google Picasa site identifies photo faces by Stephen Shankland reports Google's adding facial...  

In the anticipated release of Google's new and improved Picasa , the company will offer facial recognition technology to help you identify friends and family in your pictures without requiring you to tag them ...  

Ian Williams , Monday 1 September 2008. 12:57:00 What are you looking at? THE UK BORDER AGENCY is trialling a new automated border control system using facial recognition at Manchester International Airport. Thanks to the new system provided by Fujitsu Services in partnership with Vision-Box S A...  

While praised, today's multi-touch input methods are clearly in its infancy. It recognizes only a handful of gestures, it isn't terribly accurate and not a great tool for precise object manipulation.  

On a off-topic but reasonable related note: Has anyone had the new flatbread breakfast sandwiches as DD? They are under $3.00 and under 300 calories. I think the BEST fast food that can be obtained through a drive-through window. I frankly want to turn up my nose at anything DD would offer as fat...  

Google's online free photo organization tool, Picasa Web Albums, was upgraded today, adding facial recognition capabilities acquired two years ago from Santa Monica-based firm Neven Vision. Google said Tuesday that the firm's Picasa Web Albums service, which is used by web users to store and...  

eldavojohn writes "If you use Picasa (Google's photo sharing site), they have upgraded to 3.0 and are purportedly offering facial recognition. That's right, why tag photos of your friends when the software will group similar faces together for you? There's a new list of features including...  

Google is also launching a redesigned version of its Picasa Web Albums. Picasa 3.0 software and Picasa Web Albums are now much more integrated and easier to coordinate between, with new functionality for ...  

CryptoMetrics Inc., a provider of critical infrastructure and key asset protection systems, announced recently a contract with the government of the United Arab Emirates to deploy a state-of-the-art, face ...  

Yesterday Google announced the latest version of its Picasa photo album software which uses facial recognition to track who is in each photo. Anyone can tag a photo with your name and Google will keep that facial fingerprint of you indefinitely. The new feature, dubbed ‘name tags,’ is designed to...  

Picasa Gets Smart With Facial Recognition The Inquisitr has a post out saying that at noon today Google's Picasa is going to introduce facial recognition technology and a new downloadable Picasa photo editing ...  

New high-tech e-Border centre also announced Manchester Airport has started trialling facial recognition at border control as part of the UK £1.2bn e-Borders scheme to tighten controls.