Photo Tagger: Working With Photo Finder
Source: Tom's Guide US | Keywords: facial, recognition, tagging | Themes: Software
- 1. The Tagging Challenge
- 2. Apple iPhoto ‘09
- 3. Apple iPhoto ‘09: First iPhoto Steps
- 4. Apple iPhoto ‘09: Wrinkles in Faces
- 5. Apple iPhoto ‘09: Funny Faces
- 6. iPhoto Analysis
- 7. CyberLink MediaShow 5
- 8. MediaShow 5: Warning--Wide Load
- 9. MediaShow 5: UI and Criticisms
- 10. MediaShow 5: Criticisms, Cont'd
- 11. MediaShow 5: Analysis
- 12. Face.com Photo Tagger
- 13. Photo Tagger: Opening Accuracy
- 14. Photo Tagger: The Tagging Process
- 15. Photo Tagger: Working With Photo Finder
- 16. Photo Tagger Analysis
- 17. Google Picasa 3.5
- 18. The Picasa Name Game
- 19. Picasa’s No Dog
- 20. Picasa Analysis
- 21. Microsoft Windows Live Photo Gallery
- 22. WLPG: Name On!
- 23. WLPG: Naming, Bonus Round
- 24. WLPG: Analysis
- 25. More on this topic
15. Photo Tagger: Working With Photo Finder
All right, now that you’ve got all of your album images tagged and bagged, this officially marks the end of the evaluation...but there’s one more thing: another little Face.com pre-release app for Facebook called Photo Finder.
Like Facebook itself, Photo Finder works by invitation acceptance only. Within your circle of Photo Finder invitees, you can scan others’ photo albums to look for photos of you and your friends, tagged and untagged alike. As new images of you appear, the application will add them to your list of returned images. This isn’t a perfect process. Even within my very limited test set, I had two false positives that were the result of faulty tagging on a friend’s part, not because of any error in Face.com’s software.
The obvious purpose of Photo Finder is just to keep an active eye on the people close to you, especially yourself. If you end up at a bachelor party and someone snaps a photo at an extremely inopportune time, you’d probably thank the heavens and Face.com for putting the technology in place to alert you that your friend posted it on his Facebook site, thus giving you the chance to untag yourself and hopefully avert disaster with your significant other.
On the other hand, it’s only a small step from there to having very wide and very quiet means to track a lot of people. Most of us are nowhere near as careful with our privacy settings and choices as we should be. Face.com may remain assiduous about keeping privacy sacred and only limiting access to explicitly chosen friends, but will the next face tagging company be so benign? These tags are proprietary, not based on some open standard that can be controlled by a balanced consortium. This is about viral marketing. Whoever gets their tags widespread first likely wins the social photo metadata wars, and what gets done with that metadata may not always be to your liking. That’s why I said at the outset that I found this technology a bit scary. Once I click “Allow,” will I be allowing my face to be tracked by an ever larger, more nebulous array of entities? Not yet. This is a tool still in its fledgling days of being used for good and fun. But tomorrow? We’ll see.
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1. let just say I have spend weekly time on a low end pc to get 33 GB photo with so many file. How do I save this tag when I am reinstall windows?
2. About the portabilty in no 1. Picasa has picasa.ini in every folder, but when it corrupt, the picasa.ini is not helpful recovering the weekly time spent.
3. Speed? Why there is no benchmark graph like usual?
4. Try gradiation photos or something similiar. It will see about the acuration.
5. I want to get the best speed, what is the most needed hardware. If Processor will I7 better than C2D? If GPU, will Geforce GTX 295 better than 9800?
I have private paint experience using picasa. I have taging many face in a week of Sempron 2800+ OC to 2 Ghz. When the face recognation is done, for what ever reason, my cpu is dead (dead power electricity). When the electricity power is up, my pc is on windows. The picasa is corrupt. My one week OC is for nothing. DAMN
I recently tagged all my photos with Picasa. I think i personally tagged more than the software did--the software is VERY cautious. It also repeatedly asked to tag posters, even paintings that were on my walls. Finally, it doesn't do well with babies--which is no surprise because they all look the same to me too :-)
Its cool, but im not sure the outcome was worth sitting there tagging hundreds of pictures of ex-girlfriends.
I am giving comment for testing.
Deadlockedworld--you don't have to tag everyone in every album in Picasa--just don't tag albums that have your exes in them. I definitely don't tag everyone in my photos--only those people that are important to me.
Adobe's Photoshop Elements 7 has the ability to detect faces but not automatically match them. It did make tagging much quicker. I could select 40 pictures from a party and tag the lot all at once.
However, I found that there were several pictures that it didn't catch. So, I ended up having to go through the whole bunch manually anyway to catch the stragglers. I found I spent as much time, if not more, making sure I got everything. So, I'm not sure that the "helpful tool" actually did much.
I am using iPhoto '09 and I found that the predictive tagging is getting less and less accurate as the database of tagged faces increases. Impression confirmed by one of my friends using the same app. For example, my wife is probably the most frequent face in my collection and the software has a hard time identifying her. On the other hand, I tagged the face of a friend I see rarely and I was welcomed with 4-5 good matches.