Rhapsody teamed with the metadata mavens at Gracenote to power the music recognition feature of SongMatch.
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In a recent demonstration, Microsoft executives showed how the object-recognition feature could work for Harrah's Entertainment Inc.
Additionally, it sports that oh-so-handy intelligent face recognition feature that's (thankfully) becoming quite a common feature among new cams.
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It triggered an audit which required Facebook to disclose more user data and, importantly , to turn off its facial recognition feature in Europe.
Another recognition feature is based on rhythm and tempo.
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There's still a lot of work to do, and Nanek hopes that with more powerful hardware the facial recognition feature could be left running constantly, removing the need to snap and upload photos.
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With advances in feature and pattern recognition and other forms of machine intelligence, these video streams will throw off a tremendous amount of structured data, the use of which we will have no knowledge of or control over.
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The software includes an auto-recognition feature that identifies any device plugged into a laptop, from an electrocardiogram machine to an electron microscope, and translates the signals into a form that can be received by hospital computer systems at the other end.
Possibly the scariest "feature" of the face recognition system is that it can be hooked up to an existing hit list database of naughty people's mugs which can then be referenced against real world data from a camera.
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The camera also offers a Scene Recognition for movie recording feature that automatically adjusts camera settings for landscapes, close-ups, night landscapes, portraits, backlit portraits, and night portraits for high-quality, hassle-free results with a variety of subjects.
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Available in gray and green, the Pentium-powered computers are contoured like a TV and VCR, and feature easy-to-use speech-recognition software.
Last year, when Facebook first started rolling out its facial recognition-based photo-tagging feature in Europe, our friends across the Atlantic flipped out.
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But recognition battles are not much of a feature in Britain.
Once a specific feature is selected via eye-tracking, thumb controls or gesture recognition can be used to select navigation, infotainment, audio, HVAC, and even smartphone connectivity functions.
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Unlike HTC's implementation, however -- which had an unfortunate tendency to be hit and miss in its recognition -- Samsung's "Turn over" feature works without hitch each and every time.
The most expensive systems feature high-resolution outdoor cameras, reinforced windows, motion detectors and facial recognition scanners.
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