Comments on: Viewfinder Friends – idea for Facebook application

By: Marc Rosenfeld

Marc Rosenfeld — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:50:00 +0000

Ok,
Thanks anyway

By: arafalov

arafalov — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:37:42 +0000

Thanks Marc, but I am not doing ‘new’ projects at the moment.

I wish you good luck with the project however.

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:37:48 +0000

Hi,
We are working in a Open Source Face Recognition project for FB (more or less what you suggest here ; )
And, apparently your are proficient in Java, so feel free to join us!
http://groups.google.com/group/fr4fb
It’s a brand new group, so there is “still” not much activity ; )

PS: I couldn’t found your mail in this blog, so I sent you this comment ;~)

By: Zane

Zane — Thu, 22 May 2008 02:57:21 +0000

Yea, facial recognition has a bit further to go. I hope Flickr picks it up.

By: Alexandre Rafalovitch

Alexandre Rafalovitch — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:22:19 +0000

JM,

Thanks for the link, it looks quite interesting.

However, it will not be suitable for this particular application. Two reasons:
*) Privacy – The users might agree to give access to plugin, but probably not to some generic 3rd party application.
*) Efficiency. Polar Rose is planning to do general face recognition. That’s a very wide field and quite hard to train the software for. Riya’s strength was that you trained on your and your friends’ photographs, so only a limited number of people needed to be recognised. They expected such limitation to make recognition significantly easier. And even then, they failed (though that could have been business model).

By: jm

jm — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:40:59 +0000

For the facial recognition part, Polar Rose is working on the same thing and they will "soon" offer a Royalty-Free Partner API's

In the fall we will open up for a royalty-free use of our APIs, which will allow for partners to integrate the Polar Rose functionality into existing sites. The only significant requirements we put for the use of the APIs is that the Polar Rose signature rose is used, and data that explorers generate is passed back to us on a non-exclusive basis. The reason being that every piece of data helps train our engine.