Face recognition firm to launch Web service

Swedish start-up Polar Rose plans to make its face recognition service publicly available on the Web in the second quarter of 2008 as it tries to become a must-have tool for sorting visual content.

Facial recognition is not a new idea. Several other companies are offering this type of technology. Here are a few of the ones we’ve mentioned on ResourceShelf over the years.

Source: Reuters

1) LTU Technology (Now being used on Exalead)
2) Google (Now Being Used on Google Image Search)
3) Like.com/Riya

Here are some other posts with material on Content-Based Image Retrieval:

+ Point and Search: Cameraphone Search from Microsoft Or What MSFT Calls Mobile Navigator

+ xcavator Content Based Image Search Adds More Imagery and More Image Search Providers

+ New from Microsoft Research: EasyAlbum: An Interactive Photo Annotation System Based on Face Clustering and Re-ranking

+ Review: Content-Based Image Retrieval: Tools, Writings and Demos

+ New Bar Codes Can Talk With Your Cellphones

+ Vima Technologies

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