I was somewhat bowled over to find that Google Image search can be configured to show only faces. If you do a Google Image search for certain key words, then you just need to add &imgtype=face to the search URL in order to restrict the images shown to be only faces.
I should give credit to Gary Price who sparked my interest in this. He has an article with a number of interesting links on this topic.
Finding Faces
Started by bwelford, Aug 14 2007 08:37 PM
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Posted 15 August 2007 - 12:22 AM
It's nice to see them put their acquisitions to some use.
Adobe has facial recognition working in Adobe PhotoShop Elements. It picks out the faces on a photo.
InterVideo PhotoAlbum (I think they're been acquired by Corel, no?) is able to group photos together in themes like Beach, Sky, etc.
Anything with image search is still very, very baby steps though. Current tools commercially available are really dumb. Duplicate image finders come up with things that make you go "huh?!" while "find similar images" options equally seem to work with some kind of random element.
Adobe has facial recognition working in Adobe PhotoShop Elements. It picks out the faces on a photo.
InterVideo PhotoAlbum (I think they're been acquired by Corel, no?) is able to group photos together in themes like Beach, Sky, etc.
Anything with image search is still very, very baby steps though. Current tools commercially available are really dumb. Duplicate image finders come up with things that make you go "huh?!" while "find similar images" options equally seem to work with some kind of random element.
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