<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Google's Picasa has had this for years. <br><br>Sent from my iPhone<div>Carolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D.</div></div><div><br>On Sep 20, 2009, at 11:25 AM, "LBoswell" <<a href="mailto:laboswell@rogers.com">laboswell@rogers.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div> <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> </div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>APG Public Mailing List</span><br><span><a href="http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/">http://apgen.org/publications/publiclist/</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>