Re:Face.com opens facial recognition API to developers
by chime on Monday May 03, 2010 @09:47PM
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I've mentioned making this exact thing many times to my wife & friends. Instead of iPhone, I wanted to do real-time video from a hidden cam with the processing done on a remote PC. Imagine walking around the town and casually saying "Hey Sharon" to some random girl while she and her BF both wonder how you know her name. Would be pretty funny.
Re:Face.com opens facial recognition API to developers
by icey on Monday May 03, 2010 @08:52PM
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I've implemented something like this before. I ran into a lot of performance issues though. A match against a known person seems quite fast, but when you multiply this against even a medium sized network of people the speed becomes problematic.
This was in the 90s though, I'm sure it's much faster now - I just dont know if it's fast enough to be useful.
Re:Face.com opens facial recognition API to developers
by ComputerGuru on Monday May 03, 2010 @11:24PM
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Hey, they do it all the time on CSI and in real-time - get with the program, man!
It really seems like a pretty simple idea, especially with an API, which is already attached to Facebook, that does all of the work for you.
The API seems a bit limiting, though. For example, you must specify a list of possible users "you're looking for" in order it to find a match. The only way around this seems to be creating a private namespace that includes your own index of all Facebook users, etc.