in the way of a good product. When I agreed to take on an overview of today’s facial recognition and tagging applications, I assumed it would be a lot like the facial recognition biometric systems I’d used in years past. You pose, click, pose, click, the...

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that after 9/11, facial recognition systems popped up seemingly everywhere in search of terrorists. A couple of glowing headlines were made, including one from before the attacks when 19 criminals were identified with facial recognition at Super Bowl XXXV....

photographed at the immigration desk when you return from abroad. Facial recognition is convenient, because you don’t have to touch or press anything, but facial recognition tools like Visionics FaceIt and Viisage are designed for large corporate systems...

There are a lot of neat camera functions, most of which allow for real-time photo editing. Distortion, mirroring effects, and even facial recognition are built into the software, though facial recognition is not as seamless as expected. There are lots of fun...