Haven't seen
any confirmation or anything other than the standard "we can't comment" since the rumours of Google flirting with Riya started flying. Riya (nee Ojos) uses face recognition technology to help
autotag your photo collection. I got a demo of Riya from the uber-fun Tara
Hunt at Tagcamp and was pretty impressed — you train the software simply by tagging a few photos of someone, and
it then automagically finds other photos of that person and autotags them. It's not perfect yet, but it did make an
impressive number of correct matches, even identifying photos where the person's face was turned or in shadow, etc.
Of course I'm going to complain that it's Windows-only (and IE6 only, even, blech!)... which makes it a
perfect candidate for the Goog, who loves to stick it to Mac users. ;) Riya plans Firefox
and Mac support in the future, so I'm complaining now while the complaining is good. Anywho — you know how
rumours are, and we may still not know anything even after Riya's launch party tonight at TechCrunch central.
Om has more on the rumours.
[Via Memeorandum]
1. Nice, they are looking nice sitting next to each other. Two sites are like little kids.. funny
Posted at 5:40AM on Jan 29th 2007 by directory