Comments on: Up next: Cameras that know who you photographed

Face recognition technology built into cameras could make it easier to organize and find photos, once the computational challenges are solved.

[Mike_in_Florida]

Profiling - Sign me up!

This is great! I can't wait till I can be profiled by anyone, anywhere. Who needs to go to the airport - I can be profiled right in my neighborhood 7-11 store, or Barber shop, oil change place. I love how all of my privacy and rights are being tightened more and more! Soon I can go grocery shopping and the store can tell me what I will be eating based on my face recognition. Mexicans are whisked to the taco aisle, Jewish to the Matzo balls, etc.

[mriffon]

You're an idiot.

This is in now way even touching your freedom/rights. You've got to remember that the system can only tag pictures of people who are on file (in the camera). The 25-30 people who you photograph most.

[chassoto--2008]

Violates a Google principle

They say "save everything, depend on SEARCH to find things when
you need them." Spending time "organizing" data as it's created is
often not worth the effort. Instead, intelligent search can find the
items more effectively when you need to find something. Cameras
should just get cheaper and produce better quality images. Let the
silicon in the storage/retrieval system (Grandma's Mac) do the
search/indexing.

[Blargosaurus]

How do you search without tags?

If the images don't have any reference data on who, what, where, or when how were you planning on searching to find the images you need.

If Grandma's Mac has software to automatically insert tags as images are imported, that's fine. I don't know that it has to be on the camera, but that would be handy if you download from the camera to multiple computers.

[bewoofy1]

more robots

Just read a book in the humor section called 'are you ready for the robot uprising"

It told all about their sensors, face recognition, gait recognition, etc. This is 'robotics' technology as far as I can tell. But robotics looks really hot. Then who knows where rfid will go?

Any Narcissists out there? You are about to have your dream come true. All these fuzzy devices with robotics will be watching. Stick around long enough, might even get your ideal mate. LOL

[btljooz]

Ya'll can HAVE all this Big Brother C.R.A.P.!!!...

I will [b]NEVER[/b] buy a camera equipped with such male bovine fecal matter[b]!!!!![/b]...at least NOT until I can no longer use REGULAR film X-( :( ...

[JCipo]

Cameras that Know who you photographed

When cloning came out people started (and still respond) to fear that human clones would be the result. What the real issue is is making quality body parts. Well, these responses I have read about this article show the same fear response.
I have been using face recognition (primitive at this time) in my Fuji camera for over 6 months.
This allows the camera to concentrate on the exposure which makes the face stand out, of the person you are taking the picture of.
If advanced face recognition is made to recognize a person yes it sounds like big brother but what happens if it this technology can spot illegals that may want to attack our country. Technology can be used for good and bad. If we start to panic over these advancements then we may end up in another dark age where we begin to believe superstition over science.

John Cipo

[GGGlen]

Great

Just try convincing the natives that we AREN'T stealing their souls
now!
:-)