Polar Rose - Face Recognition Search Engine !

Is not it search engines the favorite tool for netizans now? Yes it is. But unfortunately the search is concentrated only on ‘text’. But the web is becoming visually oriented now a day. About 10 million new photos are uploaded on a daily basis. And the number seems to be doubling every 8-10 months! So on this visually oriented era we obviously need to search for photos. Nope its not the image search that by google and yahoo now offers. They have nothing to do with it. Coz the idea behind it still lays with the text based labels etc.

But we need another tool that could search the contents of the photos. The first of its kind is announced by ‘Polar rose’.

What polar rose does?

Polar Rose is a new search engine that will allow you to find anyone in any photo on any site. The Polar Rose ‘plug-in’(see the photo) helps to build a database of identified people on basis of user input.
Polar Rose starts by identifying the parts of an image that looks like a person. In the picture (left), there are five parts that are identified as people's faces. If a person's face is not in the database, the application asks if you know that person. If the Polar Rose database knows the face, or if it has any possible matches, the plug-in will display it on the picture, and ask for your agreement or other input. Polar Rose would allow the users to annote the photo with descriptive details.

The Technology

According to Polar Rose, it relies on a combination of its unique face recognition algorithms and the collective intelligence of our users.
Polar rose official website says -The face recognition technology used was originally developed by some ‘CTO Jan Erik Solem' (during his M.Sc and Ph.D).
And according to the Swedish company the tool could search for similar looking photo across the net-say faces. It analyses digital photos to locate faces, and then convert the data from 2D images to 3D models called faceprints. This faceprints can be compared with other faceprints to find the match. Since the face print is a 3D image the image of a face from different angles could not be a problem.

Interestingly look alikes could pose a problem the software!

Word meaning polar rose : 'In mathematics, a rose is a sinusoid plotted in polar coordinates'-says wiki


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http://www.technovelgy.com/
http://center-fold.blogspot.com/2006/12/polar-rose-face-recognition-search.html
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