Comments on: Riya – when the “open concept” goes too far (REPOST)

By: Tara 'Miss Rogue' Hunt

Tara 'Miss Rogue' Hunt — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 08:54:48 +0000

The face recognition isn’t nearly powerful enough at this time to pick you out in your ‘gimp suit’ (or other “fictional” wearables) in an anonymous crowd. In fact, in order to (as Frankie alluded to) keep the sample sizes fairly small, and, therefore, the training results more accurate, we use email address as a unique identifier.

Only those with both your photo and your email address can create an official digital signature.

Ah…as we live our lives more and more online, we come up against these heavy security questions. Any other security measures you can suggest would be great.

BTW…nice meeting you at Les Blogs, Ben.

By: Zach Inglis

Zach Inglis — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:34:20 +0000

It’s quite a scary thought but then again may be usefull in some instances. It should be an opt-in service though as theres no conceivable way there can be an opt-out service. Theres no way of making sure someones face structure is their email over the internet.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:04:14 +0000

That said, some of your privacy concerns apply equally to human tagging as they do to automated tagging. If I (or someone else) spots a photo of your on Flickr or the web, I could add your name to the metadata myself (on Flickr if tags are left open, or on del.icio.us), making your photo equally searchable…

This is true

By: Frankie Roberto

Frankie Roberto — Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:30:53 +0000

Here’s betting that the software throws up so many false positives that it becomes a bit crap.

Face recognition, like fingerprint recognition, only works when you have a relatively small sample size. When your sample size is the whole internet, then there will be all sorts of quirks.

Humans are always going to be infinately better at tagging than computers.

That said, some of your privacy concerns apply equally to human tagging as they do to automated tagging. If I (or someone else) spots a photo of your on Flickr or the web, I could add your name to the metadata myself (on Flickr if tags are left open, or on del.icio.us), making your photo equally searchable…

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