Facebook Adds Facial Recognition
Posted by Sam Churchill on December 16th, 2010Facebooks says every day, people add more than 100 million tags to photos on Facebook. They do it because it’s an easy way to share photos and memories. Tags on photos are an essential tool for sharing important moments, but can be a chore.
To make this process easier, they added group tagging, so you could type one name and apply it to multiple photos of the same person. Now they’re announcing tag suggestions, which will make tagging multiple photos even more convenient.
When you or a friend upload new photos, they use face recognition software—similar to that found in many photo editing tools—to match your new photos to other photos you’re tagged in. They group similar photos together and, whenever possible, suggest the name of the friend in the photos.
If you don’t want to have yourself tagged in dozens of photos across Facebook, you can opt out of facial recognition. Under “Customize Settings,” uncheck “Suggest photos of me to friends.” Your name will no longer be suggested in photo tags, though friends can still tag you manually (and you can promptly untag).
source : dailywireless.org
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