Recently, within the last couple of months, and also very recently, within the last couple of weeks, there have been several additions to the world of biometrics-based online face-searching:
Ladies and Gentlemen !
These two big searchengines are now offering a name based face search. but what does "name based" mean ?
I couldn't believe it when I first tested it. Have a look at what thes guys from a swiss research lab are doing with the Google Image search.
Since I have been working on an assignment lately, there was no time to update the blog. but now, just gieve me another afternoon, and I'll see how all these things have developed in the meantime !
phew .... it's getting hotter and hotter out there. have a look at
Finally the people that run the worlds safest matchmaking site have translated it into english. The site owners seem to believe that people who are looking for a partner ( or a date) online will have an interest in finding that person through a VISUAL search. This you can do on babondo.com and apparently it works like this: You take a picture of someone that you find attractive, let's say that of your best friends girlfriend. That picture you can then use to find a babondo.com member that looks just like the person in your picture. All the members of the site will be scanned for similarities with the picture that you have provided and will be ranked according to their look-alike-ness. Also, the site provides all the standard functions of a "regular" social networking site such as user profiles, contact lists, chat, messaging, etc. I am curious to see whether this kind of partner search will attract interest... since I always wanted to find a Christina Aguilera look-alike for a date :-))
