Thursday, September 15, 2005

What I want from Google for this Christmas

Is an image search system that will find only pictures that include me. Now I have a PhD in image analysis, so I know this is virtually science fiction but then so are my chances of sleeping with Winona Ryder but I can still dream can't I?!

Just think about it (the image search that is, not sleeping with Winona Ryder...well not while reading this anyway). Everybody is using digital cameras today and sticking their pictures on the web. Wouldn't you like to know what pictures of you, your friends are putting up and, perhaps more importantly, what comments they've added?! Even more interesting would be finding pictures of you that you didn't know your were in. You only have to walk around a large city for a day or two and you are virtually guaranteed to be in the background on someones shot. Pulling a face or just walking past. With the increase in cameras housing GPS units you could even generate a map of where you were and when you were there. Neat hey? Obviously this could also be used for more covert tasks, sort of passive CCTV. Come on Google, get your finger out. What is stopping you apart from the current practical impossibility of the task, due to the lack of any real, robust facial recognition systems? Huh, call yourselves innovative? Innovative my arse.

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