Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Facebook News : facebook Adds Facial Recognition to Photo Tagging


TechCrunch sad that Facebook’s Photo product is the most popular photo sharing service on the web by a huge margin. And one of the key features that made it so popular has been tagging, which lets you associate your friends with the photos they’re in — Facebook says that 100 million photo tags are added every day. Which is all the more amazing given that tagging is kind of a pain. Fortunately it’s getting better.
The new feature, Tag Suggestions, will group similar faces together and automatically suggest which friend should be tagged in the photos.

Facebook Vice President of Product Chris Cox says the product utilizes technology that was built in-house, as well as some technology that came from partners.

Tag Suggestions will roll out to 5% of users next week. You can get an idea of how it will work from the screenshot below...

                                                                                                                                               Via : iclarified