Google's quietly pitter-pattering its acquisitive ways back into the controversial realm of facial recognition technology.
ENGADGET: Google acquires PittPatt, wants to know you on a face-to-face basis
Face.com has a nice head start as interest in facial recognition technology heats up.
Facebook has acquired facial recognition technology company Face.com, according to a Face.com blog post.
Police said the suspect had forged identification and they used facial recognition technology to determine his true identity.
Web vigilantes are doing their best to make sure facial recognition technology gets a fair shake in the London riots, though.
FORBES: Will The London Riots Be The Turning Point For Facial Recognition As A Crime-Fighting Tool?
Counter-terrorism agencies and the gaming industry have adopted facial recognition technology to identify the bad guys before they step on an airplane or onto the casino floor.
Meanwhile, Scotland Yard says it is putting facial recognition technology into use, according to the AP, using a face-recognizing tool that was being developed in preparation for hosting the Olympics in 2012.
FORBES: 'London Riots Facial Recognition' Vigilantes Abandon Their Project
The company, which is actually a visual recognition company not an app company, has developed sophisticated facial recognition technology that analyzes features of the face and recognizes faces to a high level of accuracy.
FORBES: Viewdle's SocialCamera App Tags And Learns Your Friends' Faces
After a recent study showing that facial recognition technology is at a point where it can identify strangers with reasonable accuracy if they have Facebook accounts, the novel amateur crime-fighting technique seemed momentous.
FORBES: 'London Riots Facial Recognition' Vigilantes Abandon Their Project
After a group of digilantes formed a Google Group this week dedicated to applying facial recognition technology to photos from the London riots to identify culprits, it caused quite a stir in the media.
FORBES: 'London Riots Facial Recognition' Vigilantes Abandon Their Project
They offer a facial recognition technology API that over 20, 000 developers are using for their own projects, such as FindYourFaceMate.com, an online dating site with the narcissistic premise that we get along best with people who resemble us.
Facial-recognition technology is going mainstream not just in police departments.
WSJ: Police Adopting iPhone-Based Facial-Recognition Device by BI2, Raising Civil-Rights Questions
The technology uses facial and body recognition to generate the avatars.
Mr Kuo said that the technology makes the most of Baidu's considerable expertise in facial recognition.
应用推荐