<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18813"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I see Facebook has added a photo recognition application that supposedly will find 'untagged' photos of individuals on facebook by using a known photograph.  I know this raises all kinds of privacy (and other) issues, but that's not what interests me here.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As photo recognition software begins to reach the public domain (maybe there are versions available besides the above), would it not be a useful tool to compare and find individuals in old photographs (where you already have at least one identified photo of a person)?   Would be great to have access to something like that.  I have dozens of old photos where there is nothing written as to identities, and in some I think I can identify particular people, but having this software at least as a rough guide would be helpful.  Some of these old photographs have very high quality images.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Anyone with comments or knowledge of the state of things in this area?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Larry</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>