Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Now Picasa Knows Your Face!

This post on TechCrunch heralds the launch of a new feature on google's Picasa: facial recognition. The improvement is aimed at easing the process of tagging photos with people's names.

For example, I could identify your stunning viage in a snap, and then Picasa would scan all my other pictures looking for your unforgettable punnum and offering to tag those photos with your name as well.

Well, as much as I hate to praise the beast, Hallelujah! Tagging is a pain in the neck if you are a shutterbug and have like 10,000 pictures to index and catalog. With this, assuming it works even fairly well, the process will be eased hugely.

Facial recognition is an important new development, and Picasa, while not the first, has the sort of footprint that can quickly make this feature a commonplace offering in the photos segment of digital.

Excellent news!

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