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August 20, 2006
Face Recognition
Face recongition is one of those technologies that has been in research or industrial vertical markets (security, surveillance) for a long time but may look to break into mainstream soon. Google acquired Neven Vision this week. Neven Vision was a B2B company selling SDKs and the like to other companies that would integrate them into final products. Riya is a recent photo-sharing startup that allows user to user their recognition technology to manage their photo collections. It takes a while to train the engine but once that's done it works fairly well. Riya is accumulating an amazing collection of face fingerprints. They are even taking it a step further by applying the technology to objects as well.
Adobe, Microsoft, Kodak, Canon and the rest will be dusting off their R&D efforts in this arena prontolike
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