Need a face in your GIS
Posted: September 8 07, 8:08 am
Astonishingly, Google seem to have secretly added an optional parameter to their image search service: imgtype=face. If you add this parameter to the end of your search string, only matches with faces in them are returned. Compare:-
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=paris
and
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... gtype=face
The interesting question, of course, is, how the metadata is done. Does Google have face recognition algorithms which it’s applying to its image search indexes? Or have they tapped into something like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program to get human beings to do the recognition? Either way, pretty cool feature. I wonder if there are, or will be, other “imgtype=” parameters: “imgtype=building”? “imgtype=car”? etc.
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=paris
and
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q ... gtype=face
The interesting question, of course, is, how the metadata is done. Does Google have face recognition algorithms which it’s applying to its image search indexes? Or have they tapped into something like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program to get human beings to do the recognition? Either way, pretty cool feature. I wonder if there are, or will be, other “imgtype=” parameters: “imgtype=building”? “imgtype=car”? etc.